Israeli water companies catalogue for Control & Communication

Category: Water resources management.Sub Category: Drinking water, Desalination,Water quality and security, Wastewater Treatmentand Effluent Reuse, Renewable energy, R&D.www.mekorot.co.ilCompany profileMekorot - Israel’s National Water Company - provides solutions and regular, reliable, high-quality waterto Israel’s water industry for 75 years. Its water supply system comprises 3,000 facilities throughout thecountry, integrates most of the regional water plants and combines water from various sources: the Sea ofGalilee, Mountain and Coastal Aquifers as well as drillings and desalinated sea and brackish water.Year of establishment: 1937No. of employees: 2200Background of the companyMekorot is a unique company worldwide due to its variety of operations: water supply to all sectors, tothe Palestinian Authority and the Jordanian Kingdom; production and integration of water from multiplesources in the national system; water security; constant water quality improvement - the CentralFiltration Plant - the fourth largest in the world - positions Israel at the forefront of water treatmentin the western world; wastewater treatment and water reclamation of about 60% of Israel’s treatedwastewater; desalination of brackish and sea water through 32 facilities; storm water catchment; rainenhancement.Mekorot places high value on sustainable development and on advancing and implementing innovativetechnologies. WaTech® - the company’s Water Technology Entrepreneurship Center - provides aplatform for partnerships between Mekorot and start-ups, entrepreneurs, academicians and establishedcompanies.Mekorot Group includes the parent company - Mekorot Water Company - and two subsidiaries: EMSMekorot Projects and the international business arm - Mekorot Development and Enterprise.Mekorot is the only company in Israel to be credited with the AAA rating by Ma’alot Standard and Poor’sfor over 9 years in a row.Examples of projects•The National Water Carrier - supplies water from the Sea of Galilee to the central and southernregions of Israel• The Central Filtration Plant - the fourth largest in the world, improves the quality of water suppliedthrough the National Water Carrier• The Third Line to the Negev - supplies high quality of effluents treated by the company to the South foragricultural use without limitations• The New National Water Carrier - a revolutionary system, that will connect the desalination plantsalong the Mediterranean Sea to the National Water System and have the desalinated seawater flow inall directions, from the west to the east, center and northThe Ashdod Seawater Desalination Plant - will supply 1000000 cubic meters of desalinated water per yearThe Fifth Water system to Jerusalem• The Eastern Aquifer Rehabilitation ProjectObjectives / Target companiesWater Technology companies, local and national Water Companies, relevant ministers, regulators.Back to Index12