Mekorot's IXDen AI Platform — Israel's National Water Company Predicts Infrastructure Failures Up to 60 Days Ahead

Mekorot is Israel's national, state-owned water company, supplying the large majority of the country's drinking water through a network covering roughly 3,000 sites across 10 regions, including some 700 pumping stations and 20 desalination facilities. Since 2022 Mekorot has worked with the Israeli startup IXDen to deploy an AI-based anomaly-detection and predictive-maintenance platform.

By December 2023 the system had expanded from an initial rollout of about 70 sites to feed roughly 300 million sensor readings a day into a single monitoring dashboard, with plans to cover thousands of sites nationwide. In March 2025 Mekorot opened a National Water Control Center consolidating previously separate regional control rooms into one 24/7 hub using the same technology to detect faults and trigger backup systems automatically.

IXDen has reported detecting equipment failures and sensor drift up to 60 days before they would otherwise surface, and potential cyber-related sensor tampering roughly a week in advance. The company has also estimated that the platform will help Mekorot save 'millions of dollars' a year.

These savings and detection figures come from the vendor rather than an independently published audit, and Mekorot has not released external verification of savings or detection accuracy. Detailed technical documentation of the AI models is not public, typical for critical national infrastructure but limiting outside scrutiny of alerting logic and false-positive handling.