How a new source of water is helping reduce conflict in the Middle East

Sorek desalination plant, the largest reverse-osmosis desal facility in the world


Ten miles south of Tel Aviv, I stand on a catwalk over two concrete reservoirs the size of football fields and watch water pour into them from a massive pipe emerging from the sand. The pipe is so large I could walk through it standing upright, were it not full of Mediterranean seawater pumped from an intake a mile offshore. -- More...

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