Israel built the world's second-largest seawater desalination plant, which now supplies roughly 80% of the country's drinking water. The plant produces 2.2 billion liters daily using high-pressure filtration, making water cost about 50 cents per 1,000 liters. This transformed Israel from severe water scarcity to exporting water and expanding agriculture.
This country drinks the ocean! 80% of their water comes from here! What is this country? For 50 years, this country had very little water. Half of it is a desert. The other half has one lake, one river, and rainwater. The lake started to dry up and the neighbors did not help.
The rain is going less and less and the population is growing up and up and the people need more and more water. And this is emergency.
So they got their smartest citizens and decided to act. We are going to make the water from the ocean. Boris and his team designed this, a desalination plant, the second biggest in the world and the cheapest. It takes ocean water. Look at all this ocean water. It's salty and it's ready to go to the factory to become drinkable again. And pushes it with very high pressure through these filters. To divide salt from water. Every day, 2.2 billion liters of water are made this way.
When the first plant opened, my feeling was like I have a newborn child.
This is also the cheapest way to make water.
50 cents for 1,000 liters. It is cheapest and most ecological way to make the water from ocean. It's very cheap. This cheap.
And in 20 years, this country went from 0% to 80% drinking from the ocean, one of the highest and fastest rates in the world.
If you have cheap water, you can do whatever you like. You can make agriculture, you can make swimming pools, you can make industry, you can make most of things. All of this This is happening in my country, Israel, and I bet you didn't know about it.
But in 20 years, Israel was begging for water, and now it's exporting water to neighbors. There is a lesson here for every country. You don't beg for help. You don't wait for rain. You invent. You find a solution. Even if you have to drink the ocean. Wow!
