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Water Desalination

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Five desalination plants are struggling. Israel won't say how it is making up the difference

16.09.26|Shani Ashkenazi
The Water Authority says there is no shortage at the tap, but has declined to disclose key data on groundwater, the Sea of Galilee and contaminated wells.
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Israel’s desalination crisis could last weeks as authorities await algae test results

07.09.26|Yuval Azulay
A week after microscopic algae disrupted several desalination plants, Ashkelon and Ashdod remain shut while three others are operating at reduced capacity. Authorities have yet to publish results from a controversial experiment involving aircraft dispersing copper-containing materials off the Ashkelon coast.
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Israel's water crisis drags on as desalination plants remain largely shut

03.09.26|Yuval Azulay
Four days into the crisis, two major desalination plants remain offline and two others are operating at half capacity. Officials are relying on increased pumping from the Sea of Galilee and hundreds of wells to maintain supplies. 
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Israel built a water system around desalination. Now it is testing its limits

02.09.26|Shani Ashkenazi
An unusual algae bloom has forced five of the country's six desalination plants to halt or reduce operations, disrupting agriculture while household water supplies remain intact. The episode is raising questions about whether Israel has become too dependent on a technology that is itself vulnerable to environmental, cyber and security threats.
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Israel’s desalination crisis threatens 20,000 dunams of vegetable crops

01.09.26|Nurit Kadosh, Yuval Azulay
Five of the country’s six desalination plants south of Hadera were shut down Tuesday morning because of unusually turbid seawater, putting farmers near the Egyptian border under immediate pressure. 
סיטק פריפריה Ran Suckeveriene

How the Kinneret tackles the country’s water shortage

09.02.22|James Spiro
The Kinneret Academic College established a water engineering department to take on the country’s rain shortage - here’s how.
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One of Two Companies Allegedly Involved in Violating Water Standards to Build Israel’s New Desalination Plant

29.08.19|Lior Gutman
Israel’s Ministry of Energy announced two finalists in a tender to construct the country’s sixth and largest desalination plant, IDE and Hutchison. Both companies previously owned desalination plant Sorek, which was recently found in violation of regulations
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Two Israeli Desalination Plants Violated Water Standards, Forged Data

20.08.19|Lior Gutman
The country’s Ministry of Energy found the water in two facilities had levels of chloride higher than the predetermined standard. These facilities presented a false pretense of compliance in their reports