Hadera, Israel

What is it?

A 456,000m³/d SWRO desalination plant on Israel’s Mediterranean coast.

Who is responsible?

The H2ID consortium of IDE Technologies and Housing & Construction co-developed the project. Portugal’s Banco Espirito Santo and Germany’s HVB led the financing, with the European Investment Bank committing €150 million of debt.

What makes it special?

• The first-year water price is NIS2.56/m³ ($0.58/m³) - a stunning 16% lower than the next closest bid in local currency terms. At constant dollar exchange rates, the tariff was $0.04/m³ lower than that delivered by IDE’s revolutionary plant at Ashkelon.

• Hadera marked the first time a large-scale infrastructure project in Israel was financed in full by a consortium of international financial institutions.

• The design of the Hadera plant improves on Ashkelon in several key respects: it has a lower specific energy consumption, the improved pre-treatment system gives a better performance, and it is able to produce water with a comparatively lower boron concentration of 0.3 mg/L. All this has been delivered on a difficult site with a small footprint.