National Carrier Flow Reversal (Reverse Water Carrier)
Water transmission pipeline, Up to 120 million m3/year into the Sea of Galilee in Israel.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Israel
- Location
- —
- Coordinates
- —
- Technology
- Water transmission pipeline
- Capacity
- Up to 120 million m3/year into the Sea of Galilee
- Capital cost
- NIS 1 bn (Globes, December 2022), converted at ILS 3.36 per US$ (World Bank official exchange rate, 2022 average); the Jerusalem Post gives about NIS 900 m
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Mekorot and the Israel Water Authority
- Contractor
- EMS, Mekorot's implementation arm
- Operator
- Mekorot
- Finance
- State
- Award or start year
- 2022
- Commissioned
- 2022-12
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2018
construction begins
- 2022-12
reverse carrier launched with desalinated water entering the Sea of Galilee through Nahal Zalmon
- 2023
Mekorot records the project as operational
Sources
6 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Globes, Reverse water carrier launched to refill Kinneret, 27 December 2022. en.globes.co.il.
- maximum flow of 120 million m3/year back into the Kinneret, NIS 1 billion, 30 km first stage from the Eshkol pumping station to Nahal Zalmon, built by Mekorot's implementation arm EMS, second stage around Rosh Ha'ayin.
- Jerusalem Post, Israel's Kinneret Lake replenished with desalinated water. jpost.com.
- construction began in 2018 and the scheme was inaugurated in 2022 at roughly NIS 900 million (US$269 million), up to 5,000 m3/hour, water drawn from the Ashdod and Hadera plants and others over 100 to 150 km, entering through the Zalmon stream.
- Mekorot project page, National Carrier Flow Reversal Project. 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.
operational in early 2023, also serving northern communities and Jordan under the peace treaty. The conversion rate and its source are given in the budget note. Linear scheme, so coordinates are left blank.