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


Without disinfectants or intensive use of energy

Israeli, US researchers develop filter membranes to make treated wastewater drinkable

Sparkling water

Israeli start-up extracting water from air, around the world

Water Gen tech works in remote locations, and where pipes are no longer safe.

Maxim Pasik, executive chairman of Water Gen

Israel’s Emefcy teams up with NY water firm to enter Chinese market

Emefcy will be collaborating with RWL Water, founded by Jewish-American businessman and philanthropist Ronald Lauder, to offer a range of packaged treatment plant solutions in China.

Eytan Levy, CEO of emefcy.

Did the Weizmann Institute team up with Paris Hilton?

Bizarre April Fool's video joke turns out to really be an ad campaign for SodaStream.

Paris Hilton

A multi-pronged approach to water economy innovation

“It will be a beautiful pond with biological life that will clean the water.”

The Jewish National Fund has been helping to build Israel’s reservoirs for several years. The number of such reservoirs is now more than 250

Tropical Fish and Flowers in the Desert?

The Jerusalem Post

Israel is first in wastewater reuse, but Palestinians are last

Water and wastewater management cannot and need not wait for a political settlement, and the public, must demand from our governments to act now.

Where is this pipe leading? A water pipe near Hebron last year

Should we make the desert bloom?

Is the desert ‘nothingness that needs to be conquered’ or a unique environment we should protect? The long ecological history of the Negev might hold the key to the answer.

The Negev desert

UN official: Israeli-Palestinian water talks important for two-state solution

Palestinians and Israelis agreed Sunday to Joint Water Committee activities after a six-year freeze, hoping to update the area's aging infrastructure.

MAJ.-GEN. YOAV (POLY) MORDECHAI (left) shakes hands with Palestinian Authority Civil Affairs Minister Hussein al-Sheikh after agreeing to renew activities of the Joint Water Committee.

Israeli farmers protest government’s agriculture policies, water prices

"The supermarket chains are greedy and the farmers and consumers are paying the price."

Farmers gather in front of the Knesset on Monday to protest government agricultural policies