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## About

When completed, the Ashkelon desalination plant was one of the world’s largest and most advanced  membrane-based desalination plants.  With a huge capacity and extremely high efficiency levels, the Ashkelon desalination plant achieved one of the world’s lowest-ever prices for desalinated water. In 2010, due to the unmatched success of the plant, it was expanded by nearly 20%, providing potable water for roughly 15% of Israel’s daily consumption.

The Ashkelon plant proved IDE to be the leader of mega-sized SWRO desalination projects.

-   **Capacity:** 396,000 m³/day
-   **Technology:** Reverse Osmosis (RO)
-   **Water Source:** Sea Water
-   **Contract Type:** BOT for 25 years
-   **Location:** Ashkelon, Israel
-   **Customer:** Israel Water Authority
-   **Financial Arranger:** Bank Leumi
-   **Usage:** Potable Water
-   **Commissioning date:** 2005

## Highlights

-   #### Cost leadership
    
    Set a new benchmark for the lowest cost of desalinated water.
    
-   #### Technological leadership
    
    Revolutionary design of a unique Pressure Center arrangement for the RO stage. for increased efficiency and significantly reduced water costs.
    
    The largest installation of an isobaric chamber  DWEER (Dual Work Exchanger Energy Recovery)
    
    A unique, patented membrane-based proprietary  Boron Removal System
    
-   #### Global recognition
    
    Won GWI’s “Desalination Plant of The Year” award in 2006.
    

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## Awards

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    Desalination Plant of the Year 2006, Global Water Intelligence (GWI).
    

## Downloads

-   [RO Water Treatment – IDE’s Advanced On Demand Course](https://ide-tech.com/resource/ro-water-treatment-ides-advanced-on-demand-course/)
-   [The Ashkelon Project](https://ide-tech.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Ashkelon-Israel-Project.pdf)
-   [Seawater Reverse Osmosis (SWRO) Brochure](https://ide-tech.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Seawater-Reverse-Osmosis-SWRO-Brochure.pdf)
-   [Municipal Water Brochure](https://ide-tech.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Municipal-Brochure.pdf)
-   [White Paper - Three Center Design Implemented in Ashkelon SWRO Plant](https://ide-tech.com/resource/three-center-design-implemented-in-ashkelon-swro-plant/)
-   [White Paper - Recovery of Osmotic Power in SWRO Plants](https://ide-tech.com/resource/recovery-of-osmotic-power-in-swro-plants-2/)