Fifth Line to Jerusalem
Water transmission pipeline, 150 million m3/year, rising to about 450 million m3/year in Israel.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Israel
- Location
- Jerusalem
- Coordinates
- —
- Technology
- Water transmission pipeline
- Capacity
- 150 million m3/year, rising to about 450 million m3/year
- Capital cost
- NIS 2.5 bn (completion, October 2022), converted at ILS 3.36 per US$ (World Bank official exchange rate, 2022 average)
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Mekorot (State of Israel)
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- Mekorot
- Finance
- Mekorot
- Award or start year
- 2022
- Commissioned
- 2022-10
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2014
first segment completed
- 2022-10
second segment inaugurated and the system enters service, replacing the fourth Jerusalem system of 1994
Sources
3 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Jerusalem Post, Mekorot completes fifth water transmission system for Jerusalem, 4 October 2022. jpost.com.
- about NIS 2.5 billion over six years of construction, a 13 km tunnel through the Jerusalem hills, 3 m diameter, initial transfer of about 150 million m3/year rising to about 450 million m3/year, carrying desalinated seawater from the coast and replacing the fourth system in service since 1994. Mekorot project page, The Fifth Line to Jerusalem. mekorot-int.com.
- MENA Water Review major projects register and PPP pipeline — compiled from procurer publications, development-bank project pages and trade reporting; each record names its source.
water lifted from sea level to 900 m, 13 km section of 4 m diameter, pumping stations at both tunnel portals, first segment completed 2014 and the second in 2022, bored by TBM. The conversion rate and its source are given in the budget note. Linear scheme, so coordinates are left blank.