Greens question desal push

The Israeli’s government’s approval of extra desalination capacity at Soreq has raised the ire of the environmental lobby. Are their demands realistic?


Israel’s leading environmental lobby has stepped up its campaign to limit the use of desalination as a response to the country’s ongoing water shortage. The Israel Union for Environmental Defense (IUED) launched its latest campaign following the government’s approval of the doubling of desalination capacity at the Soreq site to more than 1 million m3/d.

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