Comptroller Blames Desalination Shortfall on Bad Management – Tel Aviv- Israel After four consecutive years of drought, Israel depends heavily on its desalination program for water, but the state comptroller said on Monday that the state’s water management is to blame for a shortfall in the supply of desalinated water. “The Water Authority is charged with the responsibility for the country’s most important natural resource but has for years managed the water in a way that is not suitable for the scale of responsibility that it entails,” State Comptroller Yosef Shapira charged in his annual report published on Monday. (LINK) Comptroller Blames Desalination Shortfall on Bad Management – Tel Aviv- IsraelDME GmbH2018-11-07T15:38:20+01:00
Israel issues tender for Sorek 2 mega-size desalination plant – Sorek – Israel The new desalination plant will take total capacity in Israel to 785 million m3/year The tender reportedly details a project to design, build, and finance a 200 million m3/year facility, and to operate it for 25 years. (LINK). Israel issues tender for Sorek 2 mega-size desalination plant – Sorek – IsraelDME GmbH2018-11-07T15:41:59+01:00
Israel received bids to build world’s biggest desalination plant – Soreq – Israel Israel on Sunday said it had received bids from seven groups to build the world’s largest desalination plant, which will be able to produce about 200 million cubic meters of water a year. The tender, still in its early stages, is for a new desalination plant in the area of Soreq in central Israel, the Finance Ministry said in a statement. There is another desalination facility that already operates at the site. (LINK). Israel received bids to build world’s biggest desalination plant – Soreq – IsraelDME GmbH2018-10-08T14:40:02+02:00
Israel Looks to Rainy Winter to Alleviate Ravages of Drought – Tel Aviv – Israel A series of drought years have so ravaged northern Israel’s water supply that even a winter of plentiful rain will not suffice to reverse the situation, according The Times of Israel. In fact, the Israel Water Authority forecasts better-than-average rainfall this coming winter; but after five years of severe drought, it won’t be enough to bring reservoir levels back to anywhere near normal. “The aggregate shortage over the past five years of drought is enormous,” it said in a statement. “The natural water sources lack some 2.5 billion […] Israel Looks to Rainy Winter to Alleviate Ravages of Drought – Tel Aviv – IsraelDME GmbH2018-09-19T17:24:10+02:00
Israel Endures Sixth Year of Drought – Israel The Sea of Galilee is 214.2 meters (703 feet) below sea level, perilously close to its black line. Nevertheless, the average Israeli has not felt the drought as in the past, mostly due to the fact that the state has invested heavily in building five enormous desalination plants in recent years. providing some 70% of the country’s drinking water directly from the sea and is building two more. Furthermore, Israel recycles some 86% of its waste water for agricultural purposes. (LINK). Israel Endures Sixth Year of Drought – IsraelDME GmbH2018-08-30T08:08:18+02:00
Israel aims to fully depend on water desalination in 5 years – Israel Israel is expected by 2022-2023 to be probably the first country in the world to depend fully on desalination plants to meet its population drinking water need. Nowadays Israel is already producing around 600 million cubic meters of desalinated water equal to about 70-80 percent of the country’s tap drinking water demand. Israel is a leading country in using desalinated water, started in 2005 with a capacity of 20 million cubic meters, and since then, the amount increases every year. (LINK). Israel aims to fully depend on water desalination in 5 years – IsraelDME GmbH2018-08-28T13:08:00+02:00
Drought Battle: Israel to Use Desalinated Water to Rescue the Sea of Galilee. Following five consecutive years of below-average winter rainfall, Israeli cabinet ministers passed a $30 million measure to replenish the Sea of Galilee and seven northern streams severely affected by the drought. The Dead Sea and the Jordan River are also suffering from the drought. For the first time ever, desalinated water will be pumped into the Kinneret to help replenish its water level, as well as the streams in the north. The plan also includes construction of two new desalination plants, one on the coast of the Western Galilee and a second in Sorek, where the world’s most advanced […] Drought Battle: Israel to Use Desalinated Water to Rescue the Sea of Galilee.DME GmbH2018-06-12T17:49:59+02:00
IDE buys Hutchison stake in Sorek desalination plant. The desalination engineering company exercised its first refusal rights in the plant and will now own all of it. With Israel’s water problems currently making headlines, desalination company IDE Technologies is strengthening its grip on the water desalination sector, announcing the exercise of its first refusal rights to acquire the holdings of Hong Kong-based Hutchison Water, its partner in the Sorek desalination plant franchise (49%) for NIS 195 million before adjustments, sources inform „Globes.“ (LINK). IDE buys Hutchison stake in Sorek desalination plant.DME GmbH2018-06-11T11:30:36+02:00
How meeting water challenges spurred a dynamic export industry – Israel … Israel’s strategy has been long in the making, and relies on a complex framework of public finance, technology, policies, and institutions. Beginning in the 1960s, the Israeli government invested in state-owned enterprises focused on reducing irrigation water use, the single biggest consumer of water. One of these firms, Netafim, was a pioneer in drip irrigation, which improves the efficiency of irrigation to 95%, as compared to 50% using traditional flood irrigation. State investment, including long-term financing arrangements produced by the Ministry of Finance, has also been critical to the expansion of desalination, which now provides some 80% of […] How meeting water challenges spurred a dynamic export industry – IsraelDME GmbH2017-10-28T05:08:44+02:00