Israel aims for 2 million m3/d of extra desalination capacity

Domestic supply shortages are forcing the authorities in Tel Aviv to adopt ever more desperate measures to try to deal with the crisis.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has instructed his National Infrastructure Ministry to draw up a plan within one month to deal with the country’s worst water crisis in ten years. The move comes on the back of an emergency government meeting held on 13 April, which also spawned a recommendation by the Water Authority that an extra 548,000m3 ...

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