Why Israel?

• The world's largest RO desalination plant
• The world's most developed irrigation methods
• The world's highest reused wastewater rate
• The world's most advanced national water management system
• The most advanced solar technologies on the international market for water heating and electricity generation
• The most environmentally friendly and cost effective solutions for MSW (Municipal Solid Waste) treatment, generating clean energy
• The best technology to reduce air pollution from stack eliminating particles as well as SOx & NOx

Since Israel’s early days, the country’s water sector has been forced to provide its citizenry with advanced solutions. Situated in one of the world’s most arid regions, it was Israel that pioneered and lead the concepts of national water management, drip irrigation, recycling, purifying wastewater and water desalination. The same is true of the field of alternative energy, including geothermal power technologies.

Based on its accumulated experience, Israel is poised to play a major role in supplying the world with cutting-edge water and environmental solutions.

The Israeli government has decided to build a 500 megawatt plant in the south. Meanwhile, Israeli solar technologies are considered most advanced on the international market: e.g., the world’s largest 354 megawatt plant in California’s Mojave desert has been constructed and maintained by an Israeli company.

Other Israeli-developed technologies deal with one of the most disturbing byproducts of the modern civilization: urban solid waste. As an alternative to its burying at vast disposal sites, technologies have been designed for a large part of this waste to be recycled and transformed into environmentally clean energy.

Israel succeeds to recycle almost 75% of its wastewater and to deliver the decontaminated water to arid regions for irrigation, in place of artesian water suitable for human consumption and industrial use.

Lately the construction has been started in Israel of several large desalination plants, aimed at preventing a long-run water deficit. The first plant is already successfully operating in the city of Ashkelon. Its 100 million m3 per year capacity makes it the world’s largest plant using the RO technology. In total, about 350 million m3 of water per year will be desalinated in Israel. While sufficient for Israel’s own consumption, this amount would not be enough for meeting the needs of our neighbors, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority, which will require setting up more desalination plants.

We invite you to come to WATEC and discover the latest innovation in...

• Advanced Water Solutions
• Cost-efficient Wastewater Treatment Plant
• Advanced Solar Thermal Power Plants
• PV Energy for Home
• Water & Environmental R&D
• Water & Wastewater Projects
• Transforming Solid Waste to Clean Energy
• Monitoring and Analyzing Water and Pollution
• Turnkey and BOT Projects
• Agro Ecology
• Mobile Desalination Units
• Green & Wise Buildings
• Water Saving Devices
• Energy Efficiency
• Clean–Tech

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