Desal costs on the decline
- From: Vol 3, Issue 1 (January 2002)
- Category: General
- Region: Middle East
- Country: Israel
THE COST OF DESALINATED WATER IS LIKELY TO FALL as more desalination plants become operational and energy, capital and maintenance costs decrease, according to Dr Pinhas Glickstern, a consultant at Mekorot Water Company.
Glickstern says that a price of $0.50/m3 of desalinated water is not an unrealistic target. Last year the V.I.D. consortium won a tender to build a plant at Ashkelon to desalinate seawater at a cost of $0.53/m3, the lowest cost ever submitted for desalinating seawater.
According to the Mekorot consultant, energy costs ...
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