Mekorot - Desalination Services
At Mekorot, the sky’s the limit for desalination! In a world that is drying up, the water economy of Israel, located at the edge of the desert, stands out. Desalination is the most important contribution to this stability. The desalination of groundwater or seawater into sweet, clean, and clear water for household and agricultural use is critical.
Mekorot uses advanced energy-saving desalination methods on the basis of its expertise and constantly improves its knowhow, and R&D. As a result, our operations are based on a variety of the most innovative membranes, efficient handling of the excreted brine, and the use of our patented efficient removal of chemicals, such as boron, from the water.
These professional assets enable us to take desalination farther and integrate innovative technologies and bid data management as a single solution for optimal handling, especially in the prolonged extreme drought conditions of a desert climate.
The data speaks for itself. For more than 50 years of desalination research and operations, we have built 23 groundwater and seawater reverse osmosis desalination plants using 66,000 membranes altogether. Annual desalination production is 50 million cubic meters from groundwater production and seawater production. Mekorot is also responsible for 40% of Cyprus’s seawater desalination.
Mekorot is not stopping there. It is thinking ahead, to the next desalination challenges, such as membrane treatment technology for wastewater for agriculture, which will improve reusable water to a quality never before achieved, using far smaller treatment areas than currently required to save tens of millions of shekels a year. We are also developing unique flow reversal technology to better exploit membrane desalination operations to boost fresh water output.
On the basis of our vast experience, we are also looking forward to increase the available water balance for use through desalination, operational optimization, and energy efficiency.
Over the years, “Mekorot” has gained vast experience in the field of desalination.
Tecnological leadership
Assimilation and use of a variety of the most advanced technologies that exist in the desalination market today.
Improving efficiency
Advanced processes for optimizing and reducing costs of chemical use.
Intergrative treatment
Expertise in the treatment and desalination of a variety of water types – brackish, effluent and more
Energy saving
Reduction in energy consumption