Veolia Environment will invest $15 million in a new environmental studies campus within the Ruppin Academic Center in Emek Hefer, which will become Veolia's center for Training and R&D. Veolia has been present in Israel since 1992. It is a strategic partner of Israeli IDE Technologies, together designing and building the world's largest reverse osmosis seawater desalination plant in Ashkelon, Israel in 2005.
Veolia has over 33,000 employees in over 105 countries and has an annual turnover of $50 billion. The first collaborative research at Ruppin will examine biological contamination levels of drinking and seawater.
