As Israel prays for the end of its current drought, the new Sorek large-scale desalination plant has completed testing and is now fully operational. Its reverse osmosis membranes can produce 624,000 cubic meters of water a day – two-thirds of the combined output of the existing Ashkelon and Hadera facilities.
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