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
- US$714 million
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Mekorot (State of Israel)
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- Mekorot
- Finance
- Mekorot
- Award or start year
- 2022
- Commissioned
- 2022-10
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2014
first segment completed
- 2022-10
second segment inaugurated and the system enters service, replacing the fourth Jerusalem system of 1994
Sources
3 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Jerusalem Post, Mekorot completes fifth water transmission system for Jerusalem, 4 October 2022. jpost.com.
- about NIS 2.5 billion over six years of construction, a 13 km tunnel through the Jerusalem hills, 3 m diameter, initial transfer of about 150 million m3/year rising to about 450 million m3/year, carrying desalinated seawater from the coast and replacing the fourth system in service since 1994. Mekorot project page, The Fifth Line to Jerusalem. mekorot-int.com.
- MENA Water Review major projects register and PPP pipeline — compiled from procurer publications, development-bank project pages and trade reporting; each record names its source.
water lifted from sea level to 900 m, 13 km section of 4 m diameter, pumping stations at both tunnel portals, first segment completed 2014 and the second in 2022, bored by TBM. Budget converted from NIS 2.5 billion at 3.5 ILS per US$, the October 2022 rate. Linear scheme, so coordinates are left blank.