Third Line to the Negev
Water transmission pipeline, 140 million m3/year in Israel.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Israel
- Location
- —
- Coordinates
- —
- Technology
- Water transmission pipeline
- Capacity
- 140 million m3/year
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- State of Israel
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- Mekorot
- Finance
- State
- Award or start year
- 1989
- Commissioned
- 1989
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 1989
the line begins delivering reclaimed water from the Shafdan soil aquifer treatment scheme to Negev agriculture
- 2017
World Bank records more than 130 million m3 a year moved to the Negev in dry months
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.
- World Bank, Water Management in Israel: Key Innovations and Lessons Learned (2017), Table 4.2 Major Seawater Desalination Plants in Israel. documents1.worldbank.org.
- The Third Line to the Negev supplies effluent given tertiary quality by aquifer recharge after secondary treatment at Shafdan, put into operation in 1989, with Mekorot moving more than 130 million m3 to the Negev in dry months for unrestricted irrigation.
- Mekorot project page, Shafdan Wastewater Treatment Plant. mekorot-int.com.
- the Third Line carries 140 million m3 of recycled water a year from central Israel to the southern desert.
- Nathan Cohen, Israel's National Water Carrier, Present Environment and Sustainable Development, 2008. pesd.ro.
- 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.
The parallel Yarkon Negev Line began working in 1989 and carries 140 million m3/year of recycled water from Tel Aviv and the Gush Dan suburbs, with six balancing reservoirs along the route. Linear scheme of more than 100 km, so coordinates are left blank.