Integrating large scale seawater desalination plants within Israel’s water supply system

Dreizin, Yosef; Tenne, A.; Hoffman, Daniel

doi:10.1016/j.desal.2007.01.028

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“…However, equally valid claims for a start date could be made for the period just prior, when desalination planning began, or the period just after, when desalination was providing substantial amounts of water to the Israeli water network. The adoption of large-scale desalination in Israel increased overall available freshwater resources and reduced uncertainties regarding both quantity and quality of water (Dreizin et al, 2007). Regardless of the precision of the timing of the shift, it represented a subtle but dramatic change in approach to water issues in the region.…”

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confidence: 98%

Desalination as a game-changer in transboundary hydro-politics

2014

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This article demonstrates how the availability of seawater desalination is important, not just as an additional source of water supply on a national scale, but as a potential 'game changer' in transboundary hydro-political interactions. The advent of desalination can change the nature of relations from a zero-sum game based on resource capture to a mutually beneficial business-like relationship typical in international commodity trade. It also allows for flexibility in policy approaches, and challenges the advantages and disadvantages hitherto thought of as inherent in upstream-downstream relations. This has wide ramifications for possible cooperation and conflict over international shared water resources. This study analyses the possible implications of desalination on hydropolitics, and then presents a case study of the hydro-political relations between Israel and Jordan in order to demonstrate how different aspects of transboundary political interactions are already being affected by the development of desalination. It demonstrates the ways in which the option of desalination allows states to pursue both unilateral and collaborative policies that were not practical in the period prior to desalination. The paper concludes by emphasizing the need for a revised analytical paradigm for analysis of hydro-politics in light of the development of desalination.

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Desalination as a game-changer in transboundary hydro-politics

2014

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“…This attention has been driven largely by concems about chmate change combined with growing global demands for food, water and power (Heinz et al, 2007;Urkiaga et al, 2008). These assessments attempt to bring together biophysical, socioeconomic and geopohtical perspectives into a single CBA of water developments (Dreizin et al, 2008). Some researchers have shown that these models can inform confhct resolution in basins shared by many riparian countries where water scarcity is faced daily (e.g.. Fisher et al, 2005).…”

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Cost–benefit and water resources policy: a survey

Ward

2011

Water Policy

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This paper reviews recent developments in cost-benefit analysis for water policy researchers who wish to understand the applications of economic principles to inform emerging water policy debates. The cost-benefit framework can provide a comparison of total economic gains and losses resulting from a proposed water policy. Cost-benefit analysis can provide decision-makers with a comparison of the impacts of two or more water policy options using methods that are grounded in time-tested economic principles. Economic efficiency, measured as the difference between added benefits and added costs, can inform water managers and the public of the economic impacts of water programs to address peace, development, health, the environment, climate and poverty. Faced by limited resources, cost-benefit analysis can inform policy choices by summarizing trade-offs involved in designing, applying, or reviewing a wide range of water programs. The data required to conduct a cost-benefit analysis are often poor but the steps needed to carry out that analysis require posing the right questions.

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“…But until the last decade the country itself only utilized small brackish-water desalination plants in peripheral areas that were not connected to the National Water Carrier (Dreizin et al, 2008). For many years Israel relied upon water conservation and water use efficiency in order to manage their water resources.…”

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Global diffusion of XL-capacity seawater desalination

Feitelson

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2014

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In the wake of rapid population growth coupled with climate change and environmental degradation, countries around the world face increasing uncertainty in their ability to provide ample, safe and sustainable potable water. To meet this uncertainty, seawater desalination has been advanced around the world as a reliable new supply that improves water quality, aquifer restoration, water security and is essentially insensitive to climate change. Not only are the number of facilities increasing, but the size of the facilities is also increasing in order to take advantage of economies of scale. This paper analyzes the emerging trend of extra-large-capacity (XL) seawater desalination facilities by examining the rate of their global diffusion and the variables that influence this rate. These variables are explored quantitatively using logistic regression. In addition, selected country case studies provide insight into the factors that drive the adoption of XL desalination. They indicate that the decision to embark on XL desalination is largely determined by internal political factors. Specifically, XL desalination is advanced when the political costs of alternative water management strategies are high.

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Integrating large scale seawater desalination plants within Israel’s water supply system

Cited by 85 publications

References 1 publication

Desalination as a game-changer in transboundary hydro-politics

Desalination as a game-changer in transboundary hydro-politics

Cost–benefit and water resources policy: a survey

Global diffusion of XL-capacity seawater desalination

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