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
- US$290 million
- 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$269 million), up to 5,000 m3/hour, water drawn from the Ashdod and Hadera plants and others over 100 to 150 km, entering through the Zalmon stream.
- Mekorot project page, National Carrier Flow Reversal Project. mekorot-int.com.
- MENA Water Review major projects register and PPP pipeline — compiled from procurer publications, development-bank project pages and trade reporting; each record names its source.
operational in early 2023, also serving northern communities and Jordan under the peace treaty. Budget converted from NIS 1 billion at 3.45 ILS per US$, the December 2022 rate. Linear scheme, so coordinates are left blank.