Desalination

Desalination

Over the past few years, global climatic changes have significantly impacted the quantity and quality of the water sources. This trend, together with a steady increase in the global population, have made the use of desalination technology more relevant than ever. By using desalination, it is possible to convert inexhaustible reserves of saline sea water into potable water, and effluent into unlimited agricultural irrigation water.

EMS Mekorot Projects designs, builds and supplies water desalination plants, using the reverse osmosis (RO) process.
Over the past few years, the Company worked to expand the Granot desalination plant, in order to facilitate the utilization of the brackish groundwater in the eastern part of the coastal aquifer, in order to stream the water to the national agricultural irrigation system and, in parallel, to restore the coastal aquifer and prevent it from becoming brackish. The facility has ben expanded in stages: during stage 2, the second 10,000 cu. m. per day capacity desalination unit was put into operation and during stage 3, two additional desalination units were opened, and together they generate 20,000 cu. m. per day.

Desalination