Ashkelon desalination plant — A successful challenge

Ashkelon — the world’s largest reverse osmosis desalination plant — is providing successfully its full capacity of drinking water (330,000 m3/d) at the lowest production cost for this type of project. The project has been developed as a BOT (Build, Operate and Transfer) by a consortium made of three international companies: Veolia water, IDE Technologies Ltd. and Elran Infrastructures Ltd. This paper will highlight the main points of this project.