Desal dominates Israel’s new $1bn water plan
- From: Vol 11, Issue 12 (December 2010)
- Category: General
- Region: Middle East
- Country: Israel
- Related Companies: Israel Water Authority
The ongoing drought in Israel has prompted the Water Authority to unveil urgent new measures to augment supplies. Most of the planned desal and reuse expansion will not come online for another two years.
Israel’s Water Authority has presented the government with an emergency plan to deal with the escalating water crisis, which would involve increasing water supply by 211 MCM/yr (578,200m3/d) by 2014.
The plan includes increasing seawater and brackish desalination, treating larger volumes of wastewater, and drilling emergency wells. A Water Authority official told GWI that the programme ...
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