Eco Factor: Desalination plant provides affordable and safe drinking water.
IDE recently celebrated the opening of its largest water desalination plant in the city of Hadera, Israel. The plant is expected to bring relief to the growing Israeli population facing imperiled water supply largely dependent on winter rainfall. The facility would channel water from the Mediterranean Sea and produce 127 million cubic meters of safe drinking water each year enough to meet the needs of one in every six Israelis. Touted as the largest reverse osmosis desalination facility in the world the plant is expected to usher in a whole new era of plentiful, affordable water for a world facing severe water challenges. Using technological breakthroughs in the fields of thermal and membrane desalination the salt is removed from seawater using a process called Reverse Osmosis (RO) in which water from a highly pressurized salty solution is channeled through a water-permeable membrane to separate it from its salty component. The plant will produce water cheap at just over 50 cents per cubic meter.
Via: Israel2c
