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The Claim

The Sorek Desalination Plant in Israel produces about 624,000 cubic meters of water per day.

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The Short Version

The claimed daily output is in the right range, but 624,000 m³/day is not the strongest authoritative figure. The plant developer lists about 640,000 m³/day, while other official documents cite about 150 million m³/year, reflecting a different annual output measure. So the statement is broadly accurate in scale but imprecise about which metric it is using.

Caveats

  • The 624,000 m³/day figure appears to come from a derived hourly design rate repeated in secondary sources, not the clearest primary specification.
  • Authoritative sources use different metrics: roughly 640,000 m³/day for plant capacity versus about 150 million m³/year for annual contracted or delivered output.
  • The wording “produces” can mislead readers into treating a design-capacity figure as actual average daily production.

The Receipts

  1. SOREK DESALINATION PLANT

    European Investment Bank

  2. Sorek I Desalination Plant (Israel) | IDE Tech

    IDE Technologies

  3. Sorek Desalination Plant Project I Cost and Status

    Blackridge Research

  4. Desalination Plants: Ten of the World's Largest

    Aquatech Amsterdam

  5. Israel Produces 624 Million Liters of Desalinated Water Per Day at ...

    Click Petróleo e Gás

  6. Desalination by country

    Wikipedia

  7. Water Infrastructure in Israel

    Fanack Water

  8. SOREK B DESALINATION PLANT

    Israel Desalination Society (ildesal.org.il)

  9. Sorek II Desalination Plant (Israel) | IDE Tech

    IDE Technologies

  10. GET Israel: Topic 9 - Sorek and overall desalination water supply in Israel

    Northwestern University Center for Water Research

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