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> **Original source:** https://ide-tech.com/en/project/sorek-desalination-plant/?utm_source=openai

![Sorek Desalination Plant](https://ide-tech.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/sorek-img.png?ver=1752355495)

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## About

The Sorek desalination plant is one of a kind and the largest seawater desalination plant operating with 16’’ elements in a unique vertical arrangement.  

It provides potable water for millions of people, comprising 20% of the municipal water demand in Israel, thus greatly contributing to the country’s water system resilience (while minimizing the environmental impact).

In 2018 IDE sold Sorek 1 desalination plant to Dan Capital. The sale was required under a deal agreed by IDE with antitrust (competition) authorities allowing IDE to bid on a BOT tender for a second SWRO desalination plant at Soreq.

-   **Capacity:** 640,000 m³/day
-   **Technology:** Reverse Osmosis (RO)
-   **Water Source:** Seawater
-   **Contract type:** BOT For 25 years
-   **Usage:** Potable Water
-   **Location:** Rishon Le Zion, Israel
-   **Customer:** Israel Water Authority
-   **Commissioning date:** 2013

## Highlights

-   #### Unique Engineering Design
    
     16’’ vertical membrane arrangement
    
-   #### Environmental responsibility
    
    Minimizes marine, shoreline and land impacts thanks to pipe jacking of long and large diameter pipelines, smart structural design and sludge treatment for reduced energy and chemical consumption
    
-   #### The largest plant of its type at the time of awarding
    

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## Awards

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    Top 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2015, MIT Technology Review
    
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    Desalination Plant of the Year 2014, Global Water Intelligence (GWI).
    
-   ![](https://ide-tech.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/award_icon.png?ver=1666796527)
    
    Highly Commended Water Deal of the Year 2012, 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/)
-   [Sorek Desalination Plant](https://ide-tech.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Sorek-Desalination-Plant.pdf)
-   [Sorek Desalination Plant Overview](https://ide-tech.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Sorek-I-Desalination-Plant-Overview.pdf)
-   [Seawater Reverse Osmosis (SWRO) Brochure](https://ide-tech.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Seawater-Reverse-Osmosis-SWRO-Brochure.pdf)