The plant turns waste water into an irrigation source in the Israeli desert

Shafdan plant processes wastewater from Tel Aviv to turn into an agricultural water in southern Israel.

The Dan (Shafdan) wastewater treatment plant is located in the city of Rishon Letsion, about 10km south of Tel Aviv, which handles about 370,000m3 of wastewater each day.Wastewater leads to the factory from a residential area of ​​about 2.5 million people in Tel Aviv and surrounding areas, through a 110km pipeline system.(Photo: Mekorot).

As the largest and most modern center for waste water treatment in Israel, Shafdan uses technology to remove nitrogen and bio-phosphorus.Each year the plant processes more than 130 million cubic meters of water to supply up to 75% of the water for agriculture in the Negev desert, south of Israel, about 10 km from the plant.

After treatment, although it is clean but not drinkable, it is mainly used for irrigation.Thanks to this system, most of the wastewater in Dan area does not fall into the Mediterranean Sea.

Mr. Gal Shoham, engineer of Mekorot company, introduced the clarifier system .Israel currently ranks first in the world for wastewater treatment, with a processing rate of about 80%.The second country is Spain with 23%.

Overall model of Shafdan factory.In the process of wastewater treatment, the system also produces methane, meeting 50 to 80% of the energy needs of the plant itself.The treated sediment is converted into type A fertilizer. The construction investment cost is about one billion USD.

Visitors learn information in the underground introduction area.Mekorot is a company under the management of the Ministry of Energy and Water, Ministry of Finance of Israel.Mekorot is defined as a national country company in the Water Law, which is under the supervision of the Israeli Water Administration.

The process of treating water with four biological reactors. The Shafdan plant went into operation in 1987, operated by the Israeli government's Mekorot company.