Israel-US CoWERC is a consortium of leading research institutions, water utilities, and private companies. The US team is led by Northwestern University and includes Argonne National Laboratory, Yale University, DuPont Water Solutions, Evoqua, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD), Hampton Roads Sanitation District (HRSD), Current, and CycloPure. The Israeli team is led by the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and includes the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Mekorot-Israel National Water Company Fluence Corporation, and The Galilee Society.
The primary objectives of CoWERC are to deploy binational resources to develop water technologies and demonstrate the performance of the new technologies in both Israel and the US. Binational teams will develop, integrate, and test technologies originating from CoWERC members. The consortium will leverage core competencies of each partner to demonstrate high-value water purification and reuse technologies in both countries. Successful technology demonstrations, supported by techno-economic assessment and systems analysis, will deliver new energy-water solutions for Israel and the US, and open global markets for CoWERC technologies.
