New desalination plant completed 

by Yuval Azulai
Globes
May 16, 2011
http://bit.ly/israeli-desalination-plant 

Global Environmental Solutions Ltd. (GES) has completed 
construction of a new brackish water desalination plan at 
Moshav Talme Yaffe near Ashkelon. The facility has been 
transferred to Mekorot National Water Company and will be 
officially inaugurated later this week in a ceremony with 
Minister of National Infrastructures Uzi Landau.

The facility took two years to build at a cost of NIS 60 million. 
The facility can desalinate 20,000 cubic meters of brackish 
water a day. GES said that, within a year, the facility's 
production can be doubled to 40,000 cubic meters of 
brackish water a day or 14 million cubic meters a year.

GES said, "This is one of the most advanced facilities in 
the world, thanks to the innovative technologies used in it."

GES is a subsidiary of Azrieli Group Ltd. (TASE: AZRG) 
unit Granite Hacarmel Investments Ltd. (TASE: GRNT).