Israel’s frustrated desal progress
- From: Vol 6, Issue 3 (March 2005)
- Category: General
- Region: Middle East
- Country:
- Related Companies: Ashcogen, Bank Hapoalim, Bank Leumi, Baran Group, Cadagua, Granite Hacarmel Investments, IDE Technologies, International Projects, Ionics, Tahal Consulting Engineers, Veolia, Via Maris and Yuvalim Desalination Group
At a lively Israel Desalination Society conference this month, the challenges facing the country’s large-scale desalination plan became abundantly clear.
Israel’s plan to increase its desalination capacity to 835,000m3/d by 2010 looks certain to slip further behind schedule despite the Palmahim build-own-operate (BOO) project achieving financial close.
Such were the difficulties in financing the 82,000m3/d plants that some observers suspected they would never go ahead. The experience of the tender and financing process ...
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