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Posted on 10/31/2026 9:29:34 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
IDE Technologies, an Israeli water treatment giant that operates some of the largest seawater desalination plants in the world, was awarded the contract for the landmark Harbor Island project on Corpus Christi Bay this summer by the Nueces River Authority, a small state water agency.
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Is this a problem? Is there an American company that can do it better for less? I have not idea. Just wondering.
There are major concerns.
One is that private financing has higher interest rates (but likely lower construction costs).
Another is that come ~30 years in the future instead of having a paid-off public system the water rates would have to be renegotiated.
“Is there an American company that can do it better for less?”
There is the matter of privately owned critical infrastructure.
In the past private contractors built big things and made a one-time profit.
What contractors would like is to receive profits for an indefinite time.
Consider the I-66 toll lanes.
“I stopped contributing years ago. “
ditto ... i kept getting censored in the COVID-19 days because i was posting information about how people could obtain inexpensive, high-quality Ivermectin overseas, trying to help save the lives of FReepers and their loved ones ...
i had already obtained high quality Ivermectin through the recommended channel, and was sending it to folks who were mortally ill, and they would send me cards thanking me ... i believe that in at least one case i was an answer to their prayers, because one person who was dying of COVID was a missionary and she mailed me and thanked me for saving her life ... i was just trying to help FReepers in the same manner, but was censored every time ...
When one buys stock, one is theoretically buying an income stream.
You might plunk down $100/share and get $4/year/share for 50 years.
Creating income streams is essentially what most capitalists hope to create - New York Central Railroad, McDonald’s, MasterCard, VISA, Ebay, AirBnB, Google, Facebook, etc.
“$10 to $15 per 1000 gallons”
My to the meter price here in Florida is something like $2.50/1000 gallons.
Israel pioneered the design and construction of extremely efficient, country-sized RO systems when they built one for themselves which produced so much potable water that they were selling it to their neighbors ... since then, it would appear their companies have experience in building and operating such systems world-wide ... i would be surprised if anyone in the world could do better ... [as an aside, i’ve thought about what would have happened if California had built multiple such systems [San Diego actually built one] instead of squandering tens of billions on a railroad that will never carry even a single passenger between LA and San Francisco ... i suppose deliberately limiting essential infrastructure such as cheap and reliable potable water and energy, while wasting tens of billions on pointless pipe-dreams, might be a good thing as it limits California’s productivity and therefore its influence at the national level]
>Is this a problem? Is there an American company that can do it better for less? I have not idea. Just wondering.<
Say do what? My issue was an earlier post-pulled. By all means find the water wherever you can get it. Out here in Calif. We have droughts that proper management can solve-not happening.
California used to be #1 at building USEFUL infrastructure. It has not been that way for some time. At this point, I assume that the purpose of much of what the CA political establishment does is money laundering, back to themselves & their political allies.
California used to be #1 at building USEFUL infrastructure. It has not been that way for some time. At this point, I assume that the purpose of much of what the CA political establishment does is money laundering, back to themselves & their political allies.
“I suppose deliberately limiting essential infrastructure such as cheap and reliable potable water and energy”...
Once you understand the Democrat party goal is to rule through manufactured scarcity, their lack of support for desalination makes sense. Long gone are those California politicians that built the water infrastructure we have been benefiting from for decades.
Quite well said.
The owners of the water infrastructure should be those who use it. Not the government nor profit motive based investors, but the water users. They have the most interest in keeping prices down and planning for the future.
Rates are always getting renegotiated. So what.
No, there is no American company comparable to Israeli Desalination technology, price or scale.
Israel simply leads the world in this field.
They make desal water cheaper on a 1000 gal equivalent to what fresh water delivered to your tap in North Texas is.
41 cents per cubic meter is $1.55 per 1,000 gallons.
We pay...
• Minimum Base Charge: $26.02 (includes the first 2,000 gallons)
• 2,001 to 15,000 gallons: $5.76 per 1,000 gallons
• 15,001 to 25,000 gallons: $6.70 per 1,000 gallons
• 25,001 to 40,000 gallons: $7.17 per 1,000 gallons
• 40,001 to 80,000 gallons: $8.29 per 1,000 gallons
Yeah this guys...
The cheapest conventional large-scale desalination plant in Israel produces water at a contracted price of $0.41 per cubic meter.
This record-low cost is achieved by the Sorek B (also referred to as Sorek 2) facility. This rate marked a massive milestone for global reverse-osmosis efficiency, significantly undercutting older conventional facilities like the original Sorek A plant, which historically sold water for roughly $0.58 per cubic meter.
“$10 to $15 per 1000 gallons”
My to the meter price here in Florida is something like $2.50/1000 gallons.”
They are financing it so they are taking a hefty profit margin.
They can make water for $1.55 per 1000 gallons.
Again this is what happens when the City Council refuses state funding for desal on ideological grounds then reality smacks them in the face and they have to either bond finance or get private funding. They took the latter and the capital costs are evident in the negotiated sale price. That’s also delivered vs wholesale bulk at plant gate price. The T&D costs are high in Texas due to reasons as in monopoly and kick backs.
“$10 to $15 per 1000 gallons. My to the meter price here in Florida is something like $2.50/1000 gallons.”
10 times that much here in Texas - about $25/1000 gallons, or $75 for our average 3000 gallons. Probably more than that in California.
“Consider the I-66 toll lanes.”
Depends on the contract - are other companies (or governments) prohibited, or effectively prohibited, from building more plants or adding water capacity in other ways? They are for I-66, based on their contract.
Those darn Israelis are taking advantage of low IQ Americans again!
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