Sewage and wastewater Services
There is no “lost water” with us: For 50 years, Mekorot has developed unique capabilities for water rehabilitation and reuse for agriculture in the desert and elsewhere. The different plants combine the most advanced mechanical, biological, and technological processes in the world to offer a complete response to wastewater treatment. Step by step, effluent is converted from an environmental hazard into a water resource that supplies treated wastewater for unrestricted irrigation for agriculture with no health or environmental hazard.
We treat the wastewater for reuse beyond the normal standards. Unique technology is applied to the wastewater to undergo further biological enhancement in the ground, without human contact, to achieve the highest quality of water for reuse. The water is designated for advanced desert agricultural management. In addition to supervision, we also supply the water to farmers all along the carrier network.
Our combined water reuse operations helps achieve four key objectives: channeling fresh water to households, increasing the quantity of water for agriculture even in the most arid areas, supplying financially feasible water for agriculture, and preserving the environment by reducing ecological damage from untreated effluent.
By implementing these objectives as part of a smart, sophisticated, and sustainable cyclical economy, we reuse more than 80% of water for agriculture thereby positioning Israel as the global record holder for water reuse.
Despite the extent that this achievement reflects, our objective is to go further and turn the efficiency of the wastewater economy into an advanced technology economy, which will be based on membrane filtering to achieve Indirect Potable Reuse (IPR) while saving significant costs and required production areas.