Water in israel

Mekorot reports strong core growth in 2025, but regulatory changes drive heavy net loss

Mekorot, posted solid underlying performance in 2025, but sweeping regulatory changes by the Water Authority pushed the company to report a significant net loss

Eshkol Reservoir
Mekorot Acting CEO Danny Soffer

Mekorot Acting CEO Danny Soffer spoke at the Israel Economic Conference 2026

Michal Livshits VP, Financial Planning & Business Analysis, Check Point & Shira Singer, Head of Digital Customer Experience, Mekorot

Mekorot’s Shira Singer on the future of water infrastructure

Shira Singer, Head of Digital Customer Experience in the Technology Division at Mekorot

Shira Singer pushes Israel’s water sector into a new technological era


Summertime, Water time

The Jerusalem Post

Government approves plan to overhaul east Jerusalem sewage, waste systems

Jerusalem residents suffer from some of the worst air pollution levels in the country.

Pools of waste water are seen at a sewage treatment plant in town of Safed in northern Israel

Ronald Lauder’s RWL Water to merge with Israeli firm Emefcy

The Caesarea-based Emefcy boasts an innovative sewage treatment technology.

Ronald Lauder

US Congress members lobby Trump on Israeli-Palestinian water issues

“In your effort to build peace between Israelis and Palestinians... we urge you to prioritize the issue of water,” the lawmakers wrote Trump in an official letter.

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men sort their cooking utensils at they dip them in boiling water to remove remains of leaven in preparation for the Jewish holiday of Passover, in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighbourhood April 9, 2017

Cross-border water pollution threatens Israeli security, watchdog says

EcoPeace: The state comptroller’s report presents “a scathing assessment of failure for more than two decades of Israeli government action and inaction.”

A Palestinian walks through a water pipe underneath the controversial Israeli barrier in al-Ram, on the edge of Jerusalem [File]

US Army disaster drill uses Israeli tech to extract water from air

The technology works on-demand by trapping humid air inside the device, then cleaning and drying the air and extracting the resultant clean water.

Water-Gen machines during US military drill

Israel - A regional water superpower

Israel is the world's leader in water reclamation with 87% of its wastewater undergoing purification and reuse for agriculture.

Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian mayors and municipal representatives participate in an event in the lower Jordan River, to call on the two governments to rehabilitate the river

Visiting Central African Republic president looks for joint ventures

Rivlin said that Israel was always ready to assist in the development of African states, but that African states should be supportive of Israel in international forums like the UN in return.

President Reuven Rivlin

L’or bleu, ultime vecteur de paix ?

Israël, nouvelle superpuissance de l’eau, détient une clé importante de l’entente avec ses voisins

Yitzhak Rabin et le roi Hussein de Jordanie au bord de lac de Tibériade

Israel Leads the Way In Water Technology Innovation

The Jerusalem Post