Mekorot
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Mekorot (lit. "Sources") is the national water company of Israel
and the country's top agency for water management.
Mekorot was founded in 1937. It supplies 90% of Israel's drinking water
and 80% of its water supplies. The company runs 3,000 installations throughout the country for water supply, water quality, infrastructure, sewage purification, desalination, rain enhancement, etc. Mekorot oversees operations of 800 pumping stations, 1,200 wells, 2,400 pumps, 10,500 km of large-diameter pipes, 750 concrete and steel reservoirs and 90 large earth reservoirs.
plants on the Mediterranean coast.
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
and the country's top agency for water management.
Mekorot was founded in 1937. It supplies 90% of Israel's drinking water
Drinking water
Drinking water or potable water is water pure enough to be consumed or used with low risk of immediate or long term harm. In most developed countries, the water supplied to households, commerce and industry is all of drinking water standard, even though only a very small proportion is actually...
and 80% of its water supplies. The company runs 3,000 installations throughout the country for water supply, water quality, infrastructure, sewage purification, desalination, rain enhancement, etc. Mekorot oversees operations of 800 pumping stations, 1,200 wells, 2,400 pumps, 10,500 km of large-diameter pipes, 750 concrete and steel reservoirs and 90 large earth reservoirs.
National water carrier
Mekorot's National Water Carrier, known in Hebrew as Hamovil ha'artzi, runs from Lake Kinneret in the north to the Negev Desert in the south. The system has been expanded to pipe water from desalinationDesalination
Desalination, desalinization, or desalinisation refers to any of several processes that remove some amount of salt and other minerals from saline water...
plants on the Mediterranean coast.