IXDen at Mekorot — AI-Powered Real-Time Monitoring Across Israel's National Water Network

Mekorot, Israel's national water company, operates around 3,000 sites across 10 regions, including 700 pumping stations and 20 desalination facilities. Since going live in 2021 (the underlying platform, IXDen, was founded in 2019), an AI monitoring layer analyses roughly 300 million data points per day from across this network in a centralised system, automatically distinguishing between normal operational variation and genuine problems — ranging from cyber-intrusion attempts and physical tampering with hardware or software to behavioural changes in equipment such as leaking pipes or compromised sensors. Detection runs fully automated with no human involvement in the initial flagging step, though major actions such as shutting down sections of the system require human authorisation. In one documented example, the system gave advance warning that a sensor at a station in southern Be'er Sheva was likely to fail within about a week.
Mekorot's CEO stated in May 2025 that the utility's overall network water loss is below 4%, compared with an OECD average of 15% and up to 30-40% in parts of the United States, attributing this to roughly $500 million per year in infrastructure and technology investment, including stakes in about ten start-ups addressing operational challenges. This national loss-rate figure provides useful context for the scale of Mekorot's broader modernisation effort, but it reflects the combined effect of many investments over several years rather than a result that can be attributed to the IXDen platform alone.
Public verification of this practice rests mainly on independent technology journalism (NoCamels) describing the platform's function and scale; Mekorot's own press communications describe a related national control centre in operational terms without publishing technical performance figures, so detailed accuracy or false-positive rates for the AI detection layer itself are not independently confirmed.

Read the full analysis: https://nocamels.com/2023/12/ai-data-protector-watches-over-israels-water-supply/