US-Israel Collaborative Water-Energy Research Center CoWERC

The Israel-U.S. Collaborative Water-Energy Research Center (Israel-U.S. CoWERC) will evaluate, develop, and demonstrate new technologies to solve critical challenges at the energy-water nexus. Water and energy are inextricably linked: water purification and distribution are primary uses of energy, while water is essential for energy production and wastewater also contains substantial energy.

There is a central challenge to enable secure, cost-effective water provision in integrated energy-water systems, including water supply, primary water use, wastewater treatment, energy recovery, and water reuse. Israel-US CoWERC will leverage recent advances in both the U.S. and Israel to reduce energy intensity and cost of water across the entire water spectrum. CoWERC will focus on three areas of technology development for the Energy-Water Nexus: Energy-efficient Enhanced Water Supply, Wastewater reuse and resource recovery, and Energy-Water Systems.