Inside the Ashkelon desalination plant.

It’s desalination week, apparently, around the world as companies, municipalities, water bureaus, and countries make announcements about the upgrade/increase/newly built desalination facilities.

So here’s some more news from Israel: In the wake of projected water shortages in the coming years, Israel’s Water Authority Council voted to increase water desalination in Israel by 275 million cubic meters by 2013.

Read about in Haaretz and the Jerusalem Post.