IDE is Israel's longstanding desalination company now producing the IDE Progreen "desalination plant in a box".
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Globally, more than 2000 million people now get their water from desalination plants, according to the International Desalination Association.
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But desalination in the Middle East has a large carbon footprint as the region is reliant on energy-intensive thermal desalination plants.
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MENA accounts for nearly half the world's desalination capacity, according to World Bank calculations, making it the largest desalination market in the world.
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To truly scale, solar desalination will have to be in line with other, dirtier (read: fossil fuel-dependent) desalination methods, which currently cost about half that.
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"Different from most existing desalination strategies, our plasmon-enhanced solar desalination device is highly portable, and thus ideal for personal or miniaturized applications," the authors conclude.
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Although desalination is a leading option for meeting the world's water needs in the future, this solution hinges on the adoption of sustainable energy sources to power desalination plants and water conservation policies that cover how fresh water is used and how brine from desalination plants is disposed of.
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According to the International Desalination Association (IDA), as of June 30th last year, there were more than 18,000 desalination plants globally, generating 22.9 billion gallons of water daily.
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That's changing in equally water-stricken Israel where Israel Desalination Enterprises, or IDE Technologies, the company that built the Carlsbad facility, have constructed Sorek, the world's largest and cheapest desalination plant.
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Desalination research hub: So far the country has not pursued desalination as a large-scale solution because the existing technology is expensive, bad for the environment, and uses a ton of energy.
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Riyadh will also privatise its water desalination agency, it said.
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It relies on a desalination plant to meet its needs.
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In Kuwait, about 99% of fresh water comes from desalination.
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Steve Calechman has written on desalination systems and pasta water.
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Desalination remains expensive, as it requires enormous amounts of energy.
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Cape Town and other parts of South Africa suffering from drought have pledged to use desalination plants and underground water reserves and AECI has applied for government tenders for desalination projects in Cape Town.
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Desalination is practiced in 150 countries worldwide and the International Desalination Association (IDA) estimates that more than 300 million people around the world depend on desalinated water for some or all of their daily needs.
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There is another desalination facility that already operates at the site.
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Dow, for instance, is making reverse-osmosis membranes for water desalination.
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Sewage treatment, water desalination, hospitals and the telecoms system are foundering.
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However, four out of the five desalination plants are privately owned.
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It's been a long time coming for desalination—desal for short.
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As droughts spread, demand for companies offering water desalination will grow.
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Riyadh wants nuclear power plants, for generating electricity and for desalination.
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Some available approaches, such as desalination and water recycling, show promise.
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To work for solar desalination, this range needs to be expanded.
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The island's desalination plant has been out of operation for years.
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Desalination is an important tool in the fight against water scarcity.
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Israel's massive Ashkelon desalination plant which produces 15 percent of Israel's drinking water, had to be closed down due to Gaza sewage polluting the seawater, intake pipe and the membranes at the heart of its desalination process.
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Amid the devastation, Shortte worked to bring a water desalination plant online.
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"The Jordanian solution for water in the future is desalination," he said.
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The national government would need to drill wells or build desalination plants.
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Both desalination and recycling capacity are set to triple within five years.
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It also has 31 desalination plants, and prices water to incentivize conservation.
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The project will need a new 1,000 litre per second desalination plant.
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Solar desalination is a tantalizing cure-all to Earth's fresh-water woes.
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Israel's conquest of seawater desalination is being hailed as an international success.
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His mother was a chemical engineer on water desalination projects in Israel.
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"The introduction of membranes in desalination was extremely disruptive," Mr. Buijs said.
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Drier weather and falling water tables mean more powered irrigation and desalination.
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GAZA DESALINATION PLANT The U.S. plan calls for channelling "significant investments" into infrastructure to increase water supply in Gaza, including desalination facilities aiming to double the amount of potable water available to Palestinians, per capita, within five years.
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To offset the environmental cost, several ambitious projects in the region are experimenting with solar-powered desalination and reverse osmosis desalination -- a less energy-hungry process that removes salt from water by pushing seawater through a semi-permeable membrane.
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Israel sees a solution in desalination, in which it is a world leader.
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THE SOREK desalination plant, about 22005km south of Tel Aviv, is eerily unpopulated.
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Currently there are 11 desalination plants in California, and 13 more are proposed.
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Israel, a relatively dry country, is a leader in water treatment and desalination.
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Turkey has ambitious plans to erect a new power station and desalination plant.
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Construction of six more desalination plants is now underway on other inhabited islands.
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Cohen believes the seawater desalination costs need to be compared apples to apples.
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Efforts to combine renewable energy and desalination are still in their early stages.
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As more places face water scarcity, desalination is seen as a possible answer.
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Saudi Arabia is heavily dependent, for example, on desalination for its drinking water.
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The work involves adding an extra milling line and a desalination plant, he said.
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Once online, 85 percent of total household and municipal water will come from desalination.
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They could provide the power for large scale desalination plants and end water shortages.
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Next year, El Paso expects desalination to provide 7% to 9% of its water.
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About a third comes from desalination plants that are among the world's most advanced.
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Desalination plants have so far struggled to get funded, because they are power hungry.
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Desalination provides all of the university's fresh water, nearly five million gallons a day.
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In the next five to 10 years, you'll see more and more desalination plants.
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"Not necessarily a desalination plant, which may be the most common (solution)..." Gomez said.
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Officials last year outlined plans to privatise SWCC, which operates some 30 desalination plants.
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Aside from producing incredible amounts of brine, all forms of desalination are incredibly energy intensive.
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Desalination plants convert seawater to drinking water, but at a cost that can induce tears.
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The commercial sector invested another 7 billion shekels into the construction of five desalination plants.
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They are also expected to be used in China for urban heating and desalination projects.
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Delek Infrastructures owns 50 percent of IDE Holdings, a company that builds desalination plants globally.
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In the last three decades, the cost of desalination has dropped by more than half.
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Facing a crisis, Perth, Melbourne, and other cities embarked on a large desalination plant spree.
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In 2016, California passed the Desalination Amendment, which tightened regulations for intake and brine disposal.
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Desalination plants harm wildlife, are energy inefficient, produce excessive wastewater, and negatively impact water quality.
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Earlier this year, it invited bids to build one of the world's largest desalination plants.
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It is also extremely expensive to build out new water supplies, dams and desalination plants.
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He lobbied the federal government for funds to create the world's largest inland desalination plant.
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If you have a desalination plant, energy and seawater, you can reliably get clean water.
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Adaptation, including sea defences, desalination plants, drought-resistant crops, will cost a lot of money.
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An attack against the desalination facilities in the kingdom would have caused a humanitarian crisis.
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In June the militia lobbed a rocket at a major Saudi desalination plant in Al-Shuqaiq.
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That breakdown of where desalination is used hints at two reasons it is not a panacea.
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That is now changing, as desalination is coming into play in many places around the world.
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Desalination requires vast amounts of energy, which in some places is currently provided by fossil fuels.
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Israel's desalination project has been successful in helping ease pressure on the country's natural water resources.
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Melbourne has since slashed per capita water use by half and installed desalination and recycling plants.
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In several islands of the Grenadines, a pilot seawater desalination project using solar power is underway.
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Abengoa built €28 billion-worth of projects between 2009 and 2015, including big water-desalination plants.
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Desalination requires lots of energy - one reason it is not more widely used around the world.
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The main desalination plant at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
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Worldwide, almost all new desalination plants use reverse osmosis, which was introduced half a century ago.
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What are the pros and cons of using desalination to solve the problem of water scarcity?
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But if you wanted to drink it, you'd have to build an expensive, energy-intensive desalination facility.
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The construction unit also expects to construct desalination facilities to produce 60,000 tonnes of water a day.
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Improvements to desalination technology would help too, by allowing mankind to tap the oceans' inconveniently salty water.
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According to Filho, the desalination plant will be the first in Brazil to operate exclusively with seawater.
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A key goal of IDE Technologies is to increase the energy efficiency of the whole desalination process.
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Around the world, desalination plants produce nearly 50% more brine (141.5m cubic metres a day) than freshwater.
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Abu Dhabi's current water production capacity is around 960 million gallons per day from 10 desalination plants.
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Such measures include efficiency efforts and investment in technologies such as desalination and water recycling, it said.
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Desalination might help provide the city with fresh water, but it's enormously expensive to run such plants.
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With desalination efforts proving to be time-consuming and costly, unconventional water supply options are under consideration.
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Desalination is also especially expensive to operate, a problem underlined by Australia's severe drought in the 2000s.
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Much of the drinking water needed to keep this desert nation alive comes from energy-draining desalination.
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Once commissioned, the plant will be the largest desalination project in the northern Emirates, the statement said.
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It expects to receive 164 million shekels from the sale of its share in desalination firm IDE.
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The minister added that UAE planned to make investments in Pakistan, including a refinery and desalination plants.
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"These countries have a high dependence on desalination because there is not really an alternative," she adds.
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Their Sorek Project is, they say, the planet's largest and most advanced seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination plant.
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During desalination, seawater is often pumped first through a porous "nanofiltration" membrane made of a substance called polyamide.
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Nuclear energy will help Saudi Arabia to develop water desalination plants, of which it is a leading producer.
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New water sources are being rushed to completion, including desalination plants and projects to extract water from aquifers.
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The project would be the world's largest reverse osmosis desalination plant, the two companies said in a statement.
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A worker at the opening of a desalination plant in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza in 22.
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Proponents of desalination contend the changes have been onerous and are slowing the march toward a desal future.
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ACWA Power has interests in a portfolio of nine power generation and water desalination plants in Saudi Arabia.
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Reeves brought 200 gallons of fresh water on the boat because he had no desalination system on board.
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The United Nations is warning that water desalination plants around the world are harming the environment, BBC reports.
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But desalination has been criticized for its historically intensive energy requirements and for potential effects on the environment.
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It's cheaper and more efficient than desalination, and doesn't require the presence of nearby water sources or rain.
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In water, tech innovation is helping drive new approaches to filtration, desalination, monitoring, irrigation, wastewater treatment and more.
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Through the process of seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO), desalination filters salt from seawater to produce fresh, drinkable water.
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Israel isn't inventing a new type of desalination technology, but they are very clever in putting it together.
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Pakistani officials are urging Gwadar residents to be patient, vowing to urgently build desalination plants and power stations.
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It opened its first desalination plant in 2005, and now has three, with two more due by 2020.
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Those include building more desalination plants, transferring water from surplus to deficit areas and building reservoirs, he added.
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Watch the video to see how desalination provides safe drinking but creates other environmental concerns in the process.
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Mohsin Al Harbi, 63, had lived for 25 years in New Zealand, where he worked in water desalination.
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They use desalination to make fresh water, so you get free water, and the engine is immensely hot.
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In March, Acwa Power signed financial contracts for the $700 million Rabigh-3 IWP desalination project in the kingdom.
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In addition to electricity production, some of these advanced reactors could be used for other industrial processes, including desalination.
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But these are minor quibbles, easily fixed: at first sight, desalination seems the answer to the world's water needs.
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Cities have been investing heavily in diversifying their water supplies, including developing new desalination technologies to make seawater potable.
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The provisions would also put more than $500 million toward other drought relief efforts like conservation, desalination and storage.
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Modi, who is on a three-day visit to Israel, checked out a desalination plant and tasted the water.
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Desalination would also have "profound impacts" on the sea ecosystem, where this waste is mostly dumped, the report found.
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Desalination would also have "profound impacts" on the sea ecosystem, where this waste is mostly dumped, the report found.
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Israel relies now on the more expensive methods of desalination and recycling for more than half its water supply.
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This is the first time Abu Dhabi is building a water desalination plant independent of a power generation plant.
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People there live by filling jerrycans with water from small desalination plants run by private vendors and international organizations.
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Roughly 16,000 desalination plants around the world produced about 141.5 million cubic meters of brine each day, the report says.
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Brine, water comprising about five percent salt, often includes toxins such as chlorine and copper used in desalination, it said.
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Because they're super robust and very efficient, the carbon nanotubes have the potential to bring the cost of desalination down.
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Jordan, which pulls 160 percent more water from the ground than nature puts in, views desalination as the main answer.
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Excessive salinity is a potential problem that would require future colonists to bring clunky desalination devices to the Red Planet.
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Veridis operates in the collection, treatment and recycling of municipal waste and treatment of hazardous materials, desalination and electricity production.
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Tuaspring is the largest desalination plant out of three in Singapore and an important water source for the city-state.
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N), while the complex also features a 1,400 kilometer (875 mile) railway link, a port, and desalination and power plants.
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Belated attempts are now being made to bring aquifer water to the surface, as well as an emergency desalination plant.
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Riyadh hopes to use PPPs to jump-start investment in school facilities, water desalination plants, transport infrastructure and other projects.
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Now, due to technological gains in water desalination, water use and reuse, water negotiations are no longer binary trade-offs.
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In recent years, five desalination plants were built on the Mediterranean coast, which provide 70% of the country's drinking water.
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Israel's multi-scale desalination plant Sorek is well on its way to providing sustainable methods for quenching the world's thirst.
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Dr. Shahzad and others are designing a scaled-up version of the system for an existing Red Sea desalination plant.
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Obvious targets are calcium and magnesium, which occur naturally in seawater and remain in the brine through the desalination process.
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Not far away, a group of German engineers was standing around, working on an experimental solar-powered water-desalination plant.
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And some of those solutions (like plastic bottles or desalination) have made way for a whole new set of problems.
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Hyflux's Tuaspring plant is the largest of three desalination plants in Singapore and an important water source for the city state.
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Most of the world's desalination plants are concentrated in the Middle East and northern Africa, where water resources are increasingly scarce.
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The natural processes that make the seas salty can be reversed by desalination technologies that turn sea water into fresh water.
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Accordingly, desalination plants are generally found in places where water is scarce but energy is cheap, such as the Middle East.
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Banks recently submitted bids to advise on the privatization of the company's $7.2 billion Ras Al Khair desalination and power plant.
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At this point, it is customary to ask why so little attention is paid in California to desalination or recycled wastewater?
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Hyflux has built two of Singapore's desalination plants that can meet up to 25 percent of the city-state's water needs.
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Both the Valadao and Feinstein bills, to different degrees, aim to increase water storage, support desalination projects and other measures. Sen.
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The Kay Bailey Hutchison Desalination Plant is named after the Texas senator who helped Archuleta lobby in DC for the plant.
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It has built two of Singapore's desalination plants that can meet up to 25 percent of the city-state's water needs.
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In the '90s, there were plans to turn the Golden Gate Bridge into a desalination station affixed with silo-like structures.
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Solar desalination around the globeAs GivePower's first project, the Kiunga facility cost $500,000 to build and took a month to construct.
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Chennai also gets water from government-run desalination plants, which are now working around the clock, raising concerns about technical glitches.
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Within the bill, a provision directs the Secretary of the Interior to leverage the experience of Israel in developing desalination projects.
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"It takes a lot of time to build desalination modules, three to five years, and at considerable cost," Mr. Winter said.
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He said he had spent $246 million on renovations, including solar panels for electricity and a desalination unit for drinking water.
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It is also working with American scientists on new technologies to supply water in Madagascar, using condensation or small-scale desalination.
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The water will be pumped from the ocean through pipes and filtration systems for desalination before hitting the faucets in homes.
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On the civilian side, Israeli advances in drip-irrigation, desalination and water-purification technology promise to enhance agriculture in arid regions.
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"Although, the kingdom's production was steady, domestic use for power generation and desalination went down and exports went up," Husseini said.
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Indeed, according to the new report, desalination process produce about 1.5 liters of brine for every 1 liter of fresh water produced.
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Now city officials are restructuring where the city will get its water in the future, including from more wells and desalination plants.
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Should gains in solar power efficiency continue, we should start to see the first large-scale desalination plants appear by the 2030s.
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They account for nearly all of the country's water desalination and power generation capacity, leaving Utico with a very small market share.
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The company also said it was continuing work on new construction projects, such as expansions at a concentrator and a desalination plant.
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A desalination plant is currently being completed near San Diego, to serve 3.1m locals, at a cost of close on $1 billion.
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It also recognizes that some communities have increased their supplies for dry years by building desalination plants, reservoirs and underground storage facilities.
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Engineers from Georgia Institute of Technology and Nanjing University have developed a new solar desalination process based on self-assembling nanoparticle membranes.
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Those included remodeling of waterways, installation of many more desalination plants, repair of non-working plants, and closure of illegal fish farms.
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San Diego, it's worth mentioning, also operates the largest desalination plant in the Western hemisphere to convert ocean water into drinking water.
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Membranes are useful in the water treatment industry for reverse osmosis treatment used in desalination and recycled water purification, among other uses.
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He said the main priorities were to restore electricity, the desalination plant that provides the island with drinkable water, and phone networks.
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For companies without the option of drilling or desalination, Ray De Vries, Founder and CEO at Air Water offers an alternative solution.
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Yet Saudi Arabia and other countries still have many desalination plants that use older thermal technologies that rely completely on fossil fuels.
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Eighty percent of Israel's drinking water comes from desalination, with 15 percent of the nation's drinking water coming from the Ashkelon plant.
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This, in turn, will unlock funds to help pay for measures begun to provide water, like desalination plants and drilling into aquifers.
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Restoring the clinic has been a chaotic, exhausting slog that has required doctors to double as home renovators and water desalination experts.
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"There is an urgent need to make desalination technologies more affordable," Vladimir Smakhtin, a co-author of the report, said in a statement.
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Our firm secured a contract worth $6bn for a desalination plant in Jeddah and a licence to operate a bank in the kingdom.
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His ministry is preparing plans for larger desalination plants, which would double Israel's current output of nearly 600m cubic metres of desalinated water.
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A previous Iraqi government put off a decision on Exxon's bid to help boost Iraq's oil export capacity and build a desalination plant.
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Secondly, even for coastal regions, desalination is very expensive, which explains why two-thirds of existing facilities are located in high-income countries.
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Banks recently submitted bids to advise on the privatization of Saline Water Conversion Corporation's $7.2 billion Ras Al Khair desalination and power plant.
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There is room for further infrastructure investment in Greece, significant room for private public partnerships in areas ranging from desalination to waste management.
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This is the controversial idea behind large-scale desalination—great big expensive facilities that turn saltwater into a liquid that won't kill you.
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Banks recently submitted bids to advise on the privatisation of Saline Water Conversion Corporation's $7.2 billion Ras Al Khair desalination and power plant.
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Hit by failing rainfall and drying reservoirs, the regional government, for instance, is building a desalination plant to produce irrigation water for farmers.
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Zaldivar's size, however, does not justify investing in its own desalination plant to bring water in from the Pacific ocean, Antofagasta has said.
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Industries and municipalities will have to pump water from further away and deeper in the ground, or opt for extremely energy-intensive desalination.
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The desalination station was proposed in the '90s by Marc L'Italien, who wanted to create another source of clean drinking water for locals.
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Water agency PUB has said it might take control of the desalination plant as Hyflux had been unable to fulfil its contractual obligations.
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Since the current drought in the Western Cape, ImproChem has sold some desalination plants in Cape Town to private sector operators, Dytor said.
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However, several desalination plants are planned and together with underground water reserves, are expected to help augment water sources well into the future.
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Under discussion for a possible long-term solution to Israel's water problem is the construction of an additional desalination plant, an industry official said.
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But over the past decade the country has invested heavily in desalination plants and projects that allow it to reclaim effluents and brackish water.
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The Carlsbad Desalination Plant sucks in 100 million gallons of seawater and turns it into 50 million gallons of fresh drinking water every day.
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Rainfall in the southwest reached such lows that Perth, the capital of Western Australia, mostly relied on water from desalination plants, Dr. Rintoul said.
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We would have to ship equipment capable of drilling a mile below the Martian surface and then bringing it to a complex desalination plant.
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One place where Piconi sees particular applicability for Energy Vault's technology is around desalination plants in places like sub-Saharan Africa or desert areas.
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They managed to stay alive by using a desalination unit to purify seawater and working through the dry food rations they had on board.
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Well, we do actually harness solar energy for desalination purposes through a variety of different schemes, at least one of which has been commercialized.
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Seawater desalination has long being deployed in drought-riddled nations like Australia and Saudi Arabia, but it hasn't always been a viable, scalable technology.
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Within one decade the country has moved from rain and groundwater reliance to supplying the country with over 40% of its water through desalination.
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He was working for a water infrastructure company that was awarded a water desalination project in Kenya, according to the Spanish daily La Vanguardia.
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Boxer isn't working for Lyft anymore, but she's consulting for Poseidon Water, a company working to build a desalination plant in Orange County, Calif.
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England could avoid the "jaws of death" by urgently reducing water waste from leaking pipes and investing in new desalination plants, according to Bevan.
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"More and more miners are building their own desalination plants or using water straight from the ocean to confront shortages of water," the report said.
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Middleditch, too, has found himself investing in tech startups—in his case, businesses focussed on staving off climate apocalypse: solar desalination, stem-cell-grown leather.
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But that could be improved with better desalination technology, which might be developed at what will be the first US research center devoted to it.
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Two recently built desalination plants, new borewells, expanded facilities to recycle sewage and a new 220km pipeline from a distant reservoir all add to supply.
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The city also plans to find new water sources — by tapping groundwater, building desalination plants, and turning to recycled wastewater, according to The LA Times.
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Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, is building the Taweelah water desalination plant independent of a power generation plant for the first time.
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In March, Sydney's desalination plant started working at full capacity to process sea water, with the aim to lift the city's water reserves to 70%.
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The executive did not specify the potential options, though La Tercera cited sources saying that Escondida could sell water from its desalination plant to Antofagasta.
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Midstream oil and gas facilities, airports and ports, and water desalination plants are also potential targets in the event of a military escalation with Iran.
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A high-tech sieve that makes the ocean drinkable Yes, you can already turn the ocean into drinkable water through existing, industrial-scale desalination plants.
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With almost free energy and desalination, though, Sacramento River Delta will easily afford to grow rice, and the San Joaquin Valley can grow more almonds.
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Scientists have high hopes that desalination technologies, which remove the salt from seawater, will help combat climate-change-induced water stress in years to come.
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In January of last year, a water desalination plant in the city of Mokha was destroyed by reported airstrikes from the Saudi-led coalition group.
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"But given that solar (power) is more viable for better desalination, I think there's a good chance by 2061 we would be 100%," he said.
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The city is also rushing to upgrade its water systems and is building desalination, aquifer and water-recycling projects to help stretch the current supply.
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The city is now working to upgrade its water systems -- rushing to build desalination, aquifer and water-recycling projects -- and help stretch the current supply.
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IDE, which has built major desalination plants in the United States, Israel, India and China, is jointly owned by ICL and Israeli conglomerate Delek Group.
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According to the report, 42 percent of toxic brine produced by desalination can be traced to just two countries: Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
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The government has acquired farmland in countries like Sudan and is growing crops on vast farms in the desert with water piped in from desalination plants.
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When Escondida does restart, the initial focus will be on maintenance and projects such as the construction of a desalination plant and concentrator expansion, Escondida said.
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In March, the European Union said it collected pledges covering 80 percent of more than $650 million needed for a desalination plant and other water projects.
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While the plant is ArcelorMittal's first, desalination facilities have already become fixtures at some rival steelmakers and multiple mining operations, which tend to be water-intensive.
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The water ministry announced a plan to build two more desalination plants to reinforce the five built along the Mediterranean coast over the past 13 years.
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In Israel the desalination industry marks a departure from one of the cardinal principles of its water-management policies—that all water is a public good.
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The UNU paper concentrated on a third drawback to desalination: what happens to the salty sludge (known as brine) left behind by the pristine, desalinated water.
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On the deck of Thunder Horse, they work two-week shifts, drink seawater from a desalination plant, and eat ribs and chicken ferried in by boat.
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Because of the cost of seawater processing and the impacts on the ocean, much of the recent desalination growth has involved the use of brackish water.
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IDE, which has built major desalination plants in the United States, Israel, India and China, is jointly owned by ICL and Israeli conglomerate Delek Group (DLEKG.TA).
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Alternative or complementary sources of power, such as wind, are being looked into, and desalination of water (as opposed to just sterilization) is being actively researched.
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He said it would meet nearly one-third of Cape Town's water needs, considerably more than desalination and other emergency plans the city is currently pursuing.
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Yet the method remains inefficient relative to other desalination methods, costing between $1.52 and $2.05 per cubic meter of water produced, according to the World Bank.
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Twice, Gaza's sewage crisis has necessitated the shutdown of a nearby Israeli desalination plant, threatening the very technology that can ensure the region has enough water.
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And given concerns about water security, having a way to mass-produce reverse osmosis membranes for desalination and recycled water purification treatments is no small achievement.
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He cited desalination technologies and energy efficiency for air conditioning, and also highlighted Russia's largest tech company Yandex, which specialises in internet-related services and products.
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As well as potential uses for desalination, the team envisages wider industrial applications for "on-demand filtration capable of filtering out ions according to their sizes".
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Water districts in the drier southern part of the state also asked for relief, saying investments in underground storage and desalination plants had increased their supplies.
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In comparison, seawater desalination costs can be as high as about $0.45 per 100 liters and about $1.50-$2.00 per 1,000 liters for large-scale production.
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Because of the prevailing current, most of that sewage flows northward to the Israeli beach town of Ashkelon, the site of Israel's second-biggest desalination plant.
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On Catalina Island, just off the Southern California coast, water scarcity is so severe that residents still rely almost entirely on a pair of desalination plants.
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"Other technologies short of desalination, like wastewater treatment, groundwater recharge, the capture of rainwater and storm water to recharge aquifers, aren't necessarily particularly expensive," she says.
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Once a drought kicks in and the water starts to run dry, it may be too late to build another reservoir or desalination plant, Dawson said.
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Eligibility under WIFIA includes, among others, projects intended to address water quantity concerns, for example, desalination, aquifer recharge, alternative water supply, water recycling, and drought mitigation.
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R. Neelakandan, a spokesman for the Chennai water board, said feasibility studies were underway on new water sources and a new desalination plant was in the pipeline.
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In recent years, these countries have invested heavily in desalination technology as a way to cope with water shortages brought on by drought and unsustainable agricultural practices.
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The city of Santa Barbara this month is preparing to fully restart a desalination plant idled in the 1990s that will provide the community with drinking water.
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A desalination water plant in Santa Barbara is scheduled to go back online in March, which will turn the salty ocean water into drinking water for residents.
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Conditions have been so dire that the city of Santa Barbara has been making plans to reopen a mothballed desalination plant to turn seawater into drinking water.
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China is using small modular reactors of 50 or 100MW in output, designed for alternative nuclear applications: industrial steam supply, desalination, district heating and remote power supplies.
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But four years of drought have overtaxed Israel's unmatched array of desalination and wastewater treatment plants, choking its most fertile regions and catching the government off-guard.
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" Picking up a water desalination pump donated by a nonprofit, she said, "We are surrounded by a very big ocean and we should take advantage of that.
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For example, as a pioneer in drip irrigation and desalination, Israel has developed many innovative solutions that could help desert states across the Southwest improve water management.
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A country with few natural resources plans to export gas to Europe from its offshore fields, and is selling water to Jordan as water desalination gathers pace.
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Ground water in coastal areas is salty and contaminated by sewage and around 80 percent of desalination plants have broken down, water authority officials and diplomats say.
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The discovery is "a significant step forward and will open new possibilities for improving the efficiency of desalination technology," Nair said in a statement from the university.
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Founded in 1993 as part of Veolia International, Veridis established the Ashkelon desalination plant and is a partner in OPC Mishor Rotem, Israel's first private power station.
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SWCC, which operates some 20183 desalination plants, currently produces about 20 percent of the world's desalinated water and is the second-largest power provider in the kingdom.
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In the future, Barnard envisions smaller, modular-style solar desalination units that would use a single pump and a 15-kilowatt solar grid with three Tesla batteries.
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"Our plasmon-enhanced solar desalination device can significantly increase the energy transfer efficiency with not only enhanced light absorption, but also more localized heating," the researchers explain.
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"These aluminium-based plasmonic structures—with low-cost materials and scalable fabrication processes—could therefore provide a portable solution for solar desalination with a minimal carbon footprint."
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Currently, desalination is largely limited to more affluent countries, especially those with ample fossil fuels and access to seawater (although brackish water inland can be desalinated, too).
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But now Gaza's waste is floating into Ashkelon's desalination plant, and the plant has had to close several times to clean Gaza's gunk out of its filters.
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The plant would be the second-largest desalination plant in the South American country, behind the one supplying BHP's Escondida copper mine, the largest in the world.
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The tender, still in its early stages, is for a new desalination plant in the area of Soreq in central Israel, the Finance Ministry said in a statement.
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When the new facility comes online, Israel's array of desalination plants will be able to supply 85 percent of total household and municipal water use in the country.
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After clean water is extracted from salt water, desalination plants are left with a large reservoir of brine, which is about twice as salty as normal sea water.
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Thursday's drone incident came after Saudi Arabia said that a projectile launched by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen landed near a desalination plant in Al-Shuqaiq overnight.
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If it works, the site would not need as much expensive equipment, would need less extra power and could use saline water - reducing the need for costly desalination.
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Complicating matters, this subsurface water contains copious and unhealthy amounts of salt, requiring some kind of desalination scheme (again, a difficult process even in the best of conditions).
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The visit to Olga Beach, close to Hadera, allowed Modi to learn about the desalination plant, which is capable of supplying drinking water for 22,000 people per day.
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Earlier this year, the White House called for $25 million for desalination research to make the process of turning salt water into drinking water cheaper and more efficient.
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There's a new mayor, who is trying to make people get serious about paying taxes and who plans to install a desalination system by the end of 2017.
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As part of the restructuring, Abengoa's global activities — from transmission lines across the Amazon, to water desalination plants in Algeria and Ghana — could all be up for grabs.
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When power costs decline by 30% to 40%, desalination will become an economical option; when they approach zero, which will happen, coastal zones will become water-rich regions.
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Desalination demands energy to make modest amounts of water; gravity powered mountain runoff behind dams creates vast amounts of stored water that produces rather than consumes electrical power.
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The process is called desalination, and it's a technology that, at the risk of sounding hyperbolic, could be key to ensuring a better future for the human race.
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But new technologies and greater use of renewable energy mean PUB thinks it can halve its desalination power needs and make sure more of the energy is clean.
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TA) said on Monday it agreed to sell its remaining stake in water desalination company IDE Holdings for 164 million shekels ($44 million) in cash to Alpha Water.
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In research shortly before his death in 1954, Alan Turing used mathematics to explore how forms emerge, yielding insights that are now being applied to problems like desalination.
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ACWA Power, which develops, owns and operates power generation and water desalination plants, said the plant was expected to save 2.4 million tons of carbon dioxide per year.
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Such plans are costly, as is investment needed in things like reinforced harbours and desalination plants to adapt to the climate changes the island states are already seeing.
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"Any place you are doing desalination you should also be doing water reuse," said Paul Buijs, who serves as the contact between researchers and industry at the center.
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Less than 24 hours later, Mr. Tsipras had flown to Kastellorizo — nominally to open a desalination plant, but in reality to send a strong signal on Greek sovereignty.
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Apart from fixing the runway, the government has also earmarked $32 million for a fishing port, a power and desalination plant, a radio station and an ice plant.
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So the city spends huge amounts of money scooping water from the sea, churning it through expensive desalination plants and converting it into water that residents can use.
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So the city spends huge amounts of money scooping water from the sea, churning it through expensive desalination plants and converting it into water that residents can use.
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An internationally-sponsored $567 million plan has been agreed to address Gaza's acute shortage of clean water by constructing desalination plants, but analysts say its realisation is years away.
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His platform includes building a desalination plant so that Hong Kong will not have to rely on water from mainland China, and discouraging the use of Mandarin in schools.
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Brine from desalination plants that tap brackish lakes, aquifers or rivers far inland is harder to treat than brine from coastal plants that can be piped into the seas.
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RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia plans to build nine desalination plants for more than 2 billion riyals ($530 million) on the Red Sea coast, its environment minister said on Sunday.
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Details in Monday's plan showed the Energy Ministry aimed to transfer all its power generation to "strategic partners" by 2020 and Riyadh will also privatise its water desalination agency.
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It includes the corporatization of Saudi ports and the privatization of the production sector at the SWCC and the Ras Al Khair desalination and power plant, the document showed.
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Cape Town has also invested, piloting a handful of desalination plants, wastewater treatment units and groundwater-extraction projects, increasing its capital spending budget by about $100m in a year.
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In Cape Town, better water quality could offset the costs of conservation due to lower spending on water treatment and desalination, providing "dramatic return on investment", the report said.
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"The water system was a mess," said Hidyathulla Chekkillakam, who grew up on the island and is an employee of the public works department that runs the desalination plant.
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As fresh water becomes more scarce and droughts more common, more countries are adding desalination to their water resource portfolios, in the hope of providing some reliable drought-proofing.
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The move by Azrieli to sell GES, a provider of desalination, water and wastewater treatment solutions, is part of its strategy to focus on its core real estate business.
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In 2009, desperate for a solution as his production levels plummeted towards zero, he spent 40,000 Tunisian dinars ($14,000) - a third of his annual revenue - on a desalination machine.
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One issue is the intermittent nature of most types of renewable power; a desalination plant would still need conventional sources of power at night or when winds are slight.
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JERUSALEM, June 8 (Reuters) - Israel Chemicals (ICL) said on Thursday it reached an agreement to sell its 50 percent stake in water desalination firm IDE Technologies for $178 million.
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Desalination plants often dispose of this toxic brine by pumping it back into the same marine environment the water was drawn from, which poses a serious threat to aquatic life.
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Saudi officials have suggested the nuclear reactors would be useful in pursuing sea-water desalination, but the secretive nature of the acquisitions has led to concerns of a wider agenda.
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Singapore also recycles used water with advanced membrane technologies and ultra-violet disinfection and has invested heavily in sea water desalination as it seeks to reduce its reliance on imports.
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The surplus would go to refill the lake, providing Israel with a strategic store of water, says Mr Steinitz, in case the desalination plants are hit by earthquakes or war.
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The lack of rainfall has overtaxed Israel's desalination and waste-water treatment plants, choking its most fertile regions in the north of the country and bringing calls for government action.
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But existing, industrial-scale desalination plants can be costly and normally involve one of two methods: distillation through thermal energy, or filtration of salt from water using polymer-based membranes.
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U.S. scientists are exchanging information with their counterparts in Arabic-language regions who have a keen interest in water desalination, food security, drought response and other cross-border environmental issues.
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Companies producing new technologies aimed at water conservation, filtration, wastewater treatment, desalination and water recovery have every reason to believe that demand for their products will only increase with time.
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This week the city announced that its desalination plant, which purifies the salt from the water and treats it for contaminants, will cover 30 percent of the Santa Barbara community.
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But instead of sending that heat back into the atmosphere, the device directs it to the distiller, which uses the heat as an energy source to power the desalination process.
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Outside the main Kaust desalination plant, which uses a technology called reverse osmosis, four huge tanks full of sand filter impurities from the seawater as it arrives through a pipeline.
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Titanium is also used in infrastructure and commercial products including civilian aircraft, chemical plants, oil and gas plants, electric power and desalination plants, building structures, automobile products and biomedical devices.
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Titanium is also used in infrastructure and commercial products including civilian aircraft, chemical plants, oil and gas plants, electric power and desalination plants, building structures, automobile products and biomedical devices.
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The fund's infrastructure portfolio includes investments in Britain's high speed railway connecting London and the Channel Tunnel and in one of the largest desalination plants in the world in Sydney, Australia.
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When it decided to buy the Areva stake nearly seven years ago, Kuwait was one of several Gulf countries considering developing nuclear power to meet demand for electricity and water desalination.
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Reverse osmosis, which has been widely used for decades in desalination plants that turn seawater into drinking water, has long been seen as having applications for the oil and chemicals industry.
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Singapore's national water agency, PUB, issued a notice to Hyflux on Wednesday saying it would take over the company's Tuaspring desalination plant in 30 days and terminate its water supply deal.
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Cholera is spread through dirty water; in January of last year, Saudi jets blew up the desalination plant serving the large city of Taiz, forcing people to turn to dirtier water.
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Saudi Arabia has been for years trying to diversify its energy mix so that it can export more of its oil, rather than burning it at power and water desalination plants.
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On Thursday, a garbage collection company (Advanced Disposal Services) rose more than 10 percent on its IPO and a water desalination company (AquaVenture Holdings) climbed almost 25 percent in its debut.
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In December it presented an ambitious, if far from fully developed, $30 billion plan to build a number of desalination plants on the Mediterranean shore of Israel and the Gaza Strip.
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The desalination system, which started operating in the coastal area of Kiunga in July 2018, can create 19,800 gallons (75,000 liters) of fresh drinking water each day — enough for 25,000 people.
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Desalination uses a large amount of energy and, for some, it's fundamentally difficult advocating for a technology that would be adding to our growing, and mostly fossil fuel-based energy needs.
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In addition to the Middle East and North Africa, desalination has made inroads in water-stressed parts of the United States, notably California, and other countries including Spain, Australia and China.
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In this lesson, students will explore the issue of water access, examine how desalination presents a potential solution, and finally, weigh the costs and benefits of various approaches to water scarcity.
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Possible solutions include recycling water and relying on desalination plants, which are often criticized for their high energy use and the potential environmental harm of ejecting brine back into the ocean.
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In this case, limestone is replaced with waste carbon dioxide and magnesium from a cement production facility and a desalination plant in Qatar, but carbon-emitting high heats are still required.
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OSLO (Reuters) - Almost 16,000 desalination plants worldwide produce bigger-than-expected flows of highly salty waste water and toxic chemicals that are damaging the environment, a U.N.-backed study said on Monday.
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The delays that have beset a desalination plant proposed by Poseidon Water, a developer of water-related infrastructure, in Huntington Beach, California illustrate how clashing interests and regulations can hold up projects.
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The Business Day newspaper reported this week that the mine could be shut down over its failure to operate a community water desalination plant, which is a requirement for its mining licence.
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Hyflux's Tuaspring plant is the largest of three desalination plants in Singapore, an island city of 5.6 million people that is trying to become less reliant on neighboring Malaysia for water supplies.
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And if both sorts of membrane can be improved, the process of desalination, which is likely to become more important as demand for water increases, will be made cheaper and more effective.
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Limberg told Reuters the city expects a new pilot desalination plant, capable of producing 2 million liters per day, to be operational by December before "accelerated full-scale" implementation of the technology.
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RIYADH (Reuters) - Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis launched a projectile into southern Saudi Arabia late on Wednesday which the Saudi-led coalition said landed near a desalination plant without causing damage or casualties.
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Some 30 miles north of San Diego, along the Pacific Coast, sits the Claude "Bud" Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant, the largest effort to turn salt water into fresh water in North America.
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The Democrats' plan calls for new desalination, efficiency and recycling projects, which they argue would be more reliable in the long term, even if it wouldn't be satisfactory to California's agricultural interests.
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One stayed in Israel while the other flew home 4,000 kilometers away, but their memories — of frolicking by the beach, talking about art, history, terrorists, and desalination — will stay with them forever.
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Honestly, if our embattled local water company ever does build a desalination plant and the price of water goes down, I don't know that I'd ever again want a field of green.
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Many Middle Eastern countries, like Israel, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia, already rely on desalination for most of their water supply, but it's not as heavily embraced in other parts of the world.
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Then the prevailing current washes Gaza's poop north, where it clogs Israel's big desalination plant in Ashkelon — which provides 15 percent of Israel's drinking water, explains EcoPeace Middle East, the environmental NGO.
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Primarily because that would help to take carbon out of the atmosphere, "You would probably have to get the necessary water initially from desalination plants on the coast to do this," said Mann.
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This could house a port and airport that would give Gaza much-needed access to the world, as well as power and desalination plants that would alleviate acute shortages of electricity and water.
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Singapore, while it produces huge amounts of water itself through desalination plants, is still dependent on supplies imported from Malaysia, and expects to be so for another several decades, according to the government.
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On Thursday, state-owned The Saudi Technology Development and Investment Co (Taqnia) signed a memorandum of understanding with China Nuclear Engineering Group Corp to develop water desalination projects using gas-cooled nuclear reactors.
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Tensions could be eased with better management of water and food resources, including recycling waste water, improved regional cooperation on agriculture and water, and using renewable energy to power desalination plants, Bak said.
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More good news came when the city of Cape Town announced last week that three new desalination plants are about to come on stream finally, delivering 16 million liters of water a day.
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Israel has substantial expertise in desalination technology, but last year the mere presence of a former Israeli ambassador on a panel to discuss water management aroused such protest that the event was cancelled.
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The city's desperate attempts to build desalination plants and install new groundwater pumps may help, but these solutions seem to be the equivalent of building an extra lane on an already jammed highway.
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Cyber-attacks by hostile governments, militant groups, or by cyber criminals could disrupt key infrastructure such as oil and gas supplies, and desalination plants, which the UAE and other Gulf states depend on.
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The prevailing current takes it right up the coast, where Gaza's waste gets into the filters of Israel's big Ashkelon desalination plant, which intermittently has had to be shut down to be unclogged.
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Singapore has recently been building up its domestic water sources - which include rain catchment and desalination - and pushing water recycling initiatives to become more self-reliant by the time the 2061 deal expires.
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ACWA Power, which develops both power and water desalination projects, said that the total investment value of the projects was $190 million, and that they would have a total capacity of 165.5 megawatts.
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Indian government's move toward more desalination plants — Chennai has just begun construction on its third in less than a decade — ignores that it takes tremendous amounts of energy to transform saltwater into freshwater.
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Indian government's move toward more desalination plants — Chennai has just begun construction on its third in less than a decade — ignores that it takes tremendous amounts of energy to transform saltwater into freshwater.
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But after a close examination of the water situation in the US, the researchers found that there are only a few niche markets where desalination might be needed in the next few decades.
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Communities cannot make big decisions around a desalination plant if they don't have data about leaks, or how much energy it may takes to move water from point a to point b, for example.
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Titanium is also used in infrastructure and commercial products including civilian aircraft, chemical plants, oil and gas plants, electric power and desalination plants, building structures, automobile products and biomedical devices, the Commerce Department said.
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Brine can cut levels of oxygen in seawater near desalination plants with "profound impacts" on shellfish, crabs and other creatures on the seabed, leading to "ecological effects observable throughout the food chain", he said.
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Getting water policy right will not only encourage everyday conservation; it will also stimulate the development of technologies such as artificial meat (which uses far less water than the real stuff) and cheaper desalination.
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On Earth we already have what could be considered fledgling efforts and concepts: carbon sequestration to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide; desalination of oceans for drinking water; and even cloud seeding for rain.
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In Gaza, where the seepage of saltwater and sewage into an overused aquifer raises the risk of disease, a blockade by Israel and Egypt has made it harder to build and run desalination plants.
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"We are exploring the rental of off-shore modular desalination units that could, together with other emergency interventions, yield up to 500 million liters per day should Cape Town's dams dry up," Limberg said.
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This would be the largest infrastructure project ever undertaken, and while in its simplest form it doesn't require any new science, getting it cost-effective would require many, many breakthroughs in construction and desalination.
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Loss-making Hyflux had been seeking strategic investors to raise funds even as it negotiated with other parties to sell its Singapore-based Tuaspring, its combined desalination and power plant, to help pay creditors.
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It includes the corporatization of Saudi ports and the privatization of the production sector at the Saudi Saline Water Conversion Corp (SWCC) and the Ras Al Khair desalination and power plant, the document showed.
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As far back as 2007, South Africa's Department of Water Affairs warned that the city needed to consider increasing its supply with groundwater, desalination and other sources, citing the potential impact of climate change.
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The investment and project development firm partners with project developers on battery storage, community, commercial and industrial solar energy; energy efficiency, vehicle electrification; fuel cell; wastewater treatment; distributed desalination and organic waste management projects.
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Worldwide, desalination is increasingly seen as one possible answer to problems of water quantity and quality that will worsen with global population growth and the extreme heat and prolonged drought linked to climate change.
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Thomas Altmann, vice president for technology with ACWA Power, which develops, owns and operates desalination and power plants worldwide, said that plants that operate on renewable power 24 hours a day remained a goal.
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Clearly though, both the United States and Saudi Arabia are in urgent need of putting in place a credible air defense system to protect the kingdom's critical facilities, including its highly vulnerable desalination plants.
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The city is now working to upgrade its water systems -- rushing to build desalination, aquifer and water-recycling projects -- and help stretch the current supply, but officials say residents need to step up, too.
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The projects include new dams, a federal water network that connects to Abu Dhabi and Dubai, a solar power station, and a desalination plant, Sheikh Mohammed, who is also Dubai's ruler, said on Twitter.
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"We have already sold five desalination plants, that's into the private sector, they give from between 500,000 litres to 1 million litres a day of water that is treated from sea water," he said.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel on Sunday said it had received bids from seven groups to build the world's largest desalination plant, which will be able to produce about 200 million cubic meters of water a year.
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"The vulnerability of this program is that the Water Authority has to continue to commit to maximizing desalination production," said Gidon Bromberg, Israel director for the environmental group EcoPeace/Friends of the Earth Middle East.
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Desalination plants pump out 142 million cubic meters (5 billion cubic feet) of salty brine every day, 50 percent more than previous estimates, to produce 95 million cubic meters of fresh water, the study said.
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"What we are doing is insurance, because if there is another rationing event, we can respond ... If there is another rationing, without the desalination, we would have to stop some of the production," said Filho.
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The pipes supply Libya with more than 70 percent of its fresh water and remain crucial because desalination plants are complicated to fix and vulnerable to attack, officials at the United Nations' children's agency say.
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The Houthis, a Yemeni Shia militia that receives assistance from Iran, have launched several attacks on Saudi infrastructure with missiles and drones, striking an oil pipeline and an international airport, and missing a desalination plant.
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ABU DHABI, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), Mubadala Investment Co and Dubal Holding on Tuesday announced plans to develop a power and water desalination plant at EGA's smelter in Jebel Ali in Dubai.
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"There's an urgent need for technologies that can deliver fresh water for irrigation and drinking purposes," said Matthew Suss, a desalination expert and an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
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The U.S. plan calls for channeling "significant investments" into infrastructure to increase water supply in Gaza, including desalination facilities aiming to double the amount of potable water available to Palestinians, per capita, within five years.
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Officials in Kiribati have said they desperately need funding for desalination plants to provide safe water for the 110,000 residents of country, where much of the water has become contaminated by seawater intrusion into groundwater.
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Moreover, Israel's natural gas discoveries enables an increase in the volumes of water that Israel produces by desalination and, thus, the amount it diverts to Jordan, which helps to meet the needs of the refugees.
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It is easier to ramp up conservation, adopt water-reuse technologies and install desalination plants than it is to build far-flung water pipelines that would divide the country and harm ecosystems in other states.
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The U.S. plan calls for channelling "significant investments" into infrastructure to increase water supply in Gaza, including desalination facilities aiming to double the amount of potable water available to Palestinians, per capita, within five years.
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Improving climate resiliency, infrastructure upgrades, water purification and desalination; zero-emission energy sources; clean manufacturing; sustainable farming; vehicle electrification; high-speed rail development; waste cleanup and removal are all dependent on technology being commercialized by startups.
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For more than a decade Kripa Varanasi and his colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have been creating and studying slippery surfaces for use in industrial equipment such as steam turbines and desalination plants.
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As part of that, the company has recently settled on a short-list of bidders interested in constructing a $2.603 billion desalination plant, and hopes to award the contract toward the end of 2017, he said.
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"Along with better water management, there is room for increasing the supply through non-conventional methods such as desalination and recycling," Guangzhe Chen, senior director of the World Bank's global water practice, said in a statement.
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ABU DHABI, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Emirates Water and Electricity Company (EWEC) and Saudi Arabia's ACWA Power said on Saturday they had secured financing of 3.19 billion dirhams ($403 million) for Abu Dhabi's Taweelah water desalination plant.
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H: And when you look at what's happening today in terms of the privatization plans from the Kingdom, we're talking about ports, we're talking about desalination plants, airports as well, what's next on the horizon there?
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When Purnima Jalihal and her team from the Chennai-based National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) first arrived on Kavaratti in 2004, they were armed with blueprints for a desalination plant and cartons of bottled water.
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Some residents of the area justify their opposition by asking whether Australia has enough water to support a larger population, an element of the country's immigration debate since the 1980s, before desalination plants became more common.
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It has solar panels for electricity and diesel generator back-ups; a reverse osmosis water filtration and desalination system for clean water; in-floor radiant heat with boilers and hot water-heat exchanger; and a sewage system.
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As an alternative approach to securing the border, a group of scientists and engineers have proposed the U.S. and Mexico build a sprawling "energy park" of wind turbines, water desalination plants, solar panels and natural gas pipelines.
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The company denies this: after a previous round of protests in 0003 in which three people died, it redesigned the project to include a $95m desalination plant as a way to avoid drawing water from the river.
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Utico, which has investments in the UAE, said it hoped to become involved in projects overseas; in August, it announced it would invest about $185 million to more than double its water desalination capacity in two years.
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The plant will be the biggest in the world to use reverse osmosis technology, Israel's Finance Ministry said on Thursday, and will join an unrivaled array of five desalination plants that already dot the country's Mediterranean coast.
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The group said plans by the city for desalination, recycling waste water and tapping groundwater supplies would cost on average 10 times more to supply each liter of water than clearing invasive eucalyptus, pine and acacia trees.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said on Thursday a projectile launched by Yemen's Iranian-aligned Houthi forces had landed on Wednesday night near a Saudi desalination plant in Shuqaiq, causing no casualties or damage.
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Unlike many other cities, which can draw their water supplies from various sources like underground aquifers or through desalination plants, Cape Town gets more than 99 percent of its water supply from dams that rely on rain.
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Last year, instead of focusing on "low-hanging fruit" like tapping into local aquifers, the city concentrated on building temporary desalination units, said Kevin Winter, a water expert at the University of Cape Town's Future Water Institute.
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"We are trying to develop new processes, to consume less energy and be more environmentally friendly," said Noreddine Ghaffour, a researcher in the Water Desalination and Reuse Center at the university, which is universally known as Kaust.
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Operational in 2014, the $7.2 billion Ras Al Khair desalination and power plant will be capable of delivering 1.025 billion cubic metres of desalinated water every day to Riyadh and several other areas once at full capacity.
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Jordan&aposs flagship Red Sea desalination project, which includes a water trade with Israel, has faced repeated delays, most recently because of a diplomatic crisis that led to a scaling back of cross-border contacts since the summer.
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This, along with rapid growth in the city's population, has meant that it has had to build two desalination plants, as well as a facility to recycle sewage water, at a total cost of well over A$1.5bn.
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We expect close to 50% of Shougang's capex for 2017-2019 to be used for public-service functions, such as the development of Caofeidian and New Shougang Beijing, and environmental projects, such as garbage disposal and desalination plants.
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At the same time, large areas in Jordan's eastern desert would host a 200 square km (75 square mile) solar-energy plant, which would provide power for desalination (and for Jordan) in exchange for water from the coast.
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RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia will offer international investors the chance to invest in a raft of privatization deals from grains to healthcare and water desalination over the next six months, Economy Minister Mohammed al-Tuwaijri said on Thursday.
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SANTIAGO, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Chile's state copper miner Codelco said on Monday it had awarded a tender for a desalination plant for its Chuquicamata, Radomiro Tomic and Ministro Hales mines to a consortium led by Japan's Marubeni Corp.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - School buildings and desalination facilities producing fresh water will feature in some of the first deals as Saudi Arabia transfers a quarter of its economy to private hands, an official overseeing the process said on Wednesday.
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The collapse of the water aquifer and the resulting necessity of desalination of nearly all the water in Gaza has propelled new thinking in water and treatment technology that could be viable in frontier markets around the globe.
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Reporting their findings in the Nature Nanotechnology journal, researchers from the University of Manchester have claimed that the process of desalination – filtering salt-water to produce fresh water – could lead to cheaper filtration systems in the developing world.
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The desalination and power plant is one a number of state assets that the government is selling as part of a privatization drive to reduce pressure on its capital spending and to diversify government revenues away from oil.
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The pair were there to discuss desalination (the process of turning seawater into potable water), but who knows what the two besties really talked about as they hiked up their pants and waded, smiling, into the Mediterranean Sea.
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The only way Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians will all have water and energy security is through large-scale desalination, and the only way they can get that — and not worsen climate change — is through massive solar-power generation.
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SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile's state-owned mining company Codelco, the largest copper producer in the world, received environmental approval this week to build a $1 billion desalination plant to supply water to its operations in the country's northern region.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel has received bids from three groups interested in building and operating a desalination plant that will supply more than a fifth of the country's household water and help battle shortages that could arise from climate change.
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Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman launched seven strategic projects in the fields of renewable energy, atomic energy, water desalination, genetic medicine and the aircraft industry during his visit to King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) on Monday.
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Other sectors where private or public-private projects are playing their part are: Roads, light rail, desalination, independent power production, renewables like wind, solar and thermal-solar power, seaports, long-term rental housing, government buildings, waste treatment and more.
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Indian state-owned power producer NTPC Ltd and Australia's Sydney desalination plant tapped the Samurai and Ninja markets, respectively, reinforcing the appeal of the deals, which foreign companies raise in yen or other currencies and are syndicated in Japan.
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Related: Heat-resistant corals in the Middle East could save the world's dying reefs Removing salt from the sea A popular way to supplement the insufficient water supply is to separate salt from seawater in a process called desalination.
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This super-salty brine is toxic to marine life, and as many nations become more dependent on desalination to supply drinkable water to their citizens, the report argues that this form of water purification could be a serious environmental hazard.
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Desalination is usually achieved either by boiling salt water and collecting the steam, so that the salt is left behind, or reverse osmosis, which uses pressure to force saltwater through a semipermeable membrane that filters out salt and other particles.
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About 55 percent of the brine is produced in desalination plants processing seawater in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, according to the study by the U.N. University's Canadian-based Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH).
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Qatar likewise could shut down an undersea natural gas pipeline running to the United Arab Emirates, a crucial power source for a desert nation that relies on desalination plants for water and air conditioners to cope with the scorching heat.
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"The Sorek desalination plant is producing 624,000 cubic meters (of water) per day, which is about 20 percent of the domestic usage in Israel," Miriam Faigon, senior director of water solutions and products at IDE Technologies, told CNBC's Sustainable Energy.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Five years into a drought that has left its natural water sources at their lowest in a century, Israel plans to build two new desalination plants and expand its pipelines to ease stress on farmers and the environment.
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But, on a more practical note, Zhang Lin of Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, and his colleagues now hope to turn Turing's chemical insights to the task of improving desalination, a process that provides drinking water for around 300m people.
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"Many fish and marine creatures will not be able to deal with the dramatic change of environment caused by massive desalination and the rise of sea temperatures caused by a nuclear reactor," said the researcher, who declined to be named.
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Qatar said that a radioactive plume from an accidental discharge could reach its capital Doha in five to 13 hours and a radiation leak would have a devastating effect on the region's water supply because of its reliance on desalination plants.
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There are two types of desalination—thermal, which heats up water and then captures the condensation, and reverse osmosis, which forces sea water through the pores of a membrane that are many times smaller than the diameter of a human hair.
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A Cape Town subsidiary of leading hotel chain Tsogo Sun is this week taking delivery of a pioneering desalination plant, to suck seawater from Cape Town's harbor and churn out enough fresh water for the chain's 1,400 Cape Town hotel rooms.
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As for the water concerns, the developers say they will fulfill their promise, made at the outset of the project, to build a desalination plant for all their potable water needs, that way sparing the municipal water supply additional burden.
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He said the deals included a 26-year contract for drinking water distribution in India with a cumulated value of 400 million euros, as well as a desalination plant in United Arab Emirates and a partnership with Chinese oil company CNOOC .
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She links the taste of her perfectly brewed cup to the desalination plant that has brought potable water to the doorsteps of islanders, and almost erased the memory of the brackish tea she hurriedly swallowed down until a decade ago.
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Israel has been chronically water-starved – much like the drought-stricken states in the southwestern U.S. – but through innovative technology like desalination, a process that separates salt from seawater, Israel now gets a quarter of its water from the Mediterranean Sea.
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There are environmental costs to desalination as well: in the emissions of greenhouse gases from the large amount of energy used, and in the disposal of the brine, which in addition to being extremely salty is laced with toxic treatment chemicals.
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And the city is regularly updating a Day Zero countdown portal to keep residents in the know on the state of our dams and the status of various desalination and other projects underway to deliver water to our dry city.
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ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Abu Dhabi has invited international firms to express interest in building one of the world's biggest water desalination plants as the capital of the United Arab Emirates boosts capacity to meet rising demand, a senior official said on Wednesday.
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Among plans in the pipeline are the sale of the Ras Al Khair desalination and power plant, as well as flour mills and football teams; a PPP for private companies to build and operate facilities for 60 schools; and the corporatisation of ports.
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Most recently, in a paper published Thursday in Science, chemical engineers in China used pattern generation described by Turing to explain a more efficient process for water desalination, which is increasingly being used to provide freshwater for drinking and irrigation in arid places.
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NTPC is wrapping up a US$350m-equivalent yen-denominated 753-year Samurai loan, and Sydney desalination plant funded a refinancing that included a A$500m 11-year Ninja loan that was syndicated to Japanese regional and cooperative banks and life insurers.
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Hyflux, a private company which has built desalination plants supplying up to a quarter of Singapore's water, is in dire financial straits and to keep creditors at bay it is looking to sell its Tuaspring plant in the west of the city-state.
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Although Saudi Arabia is increasingly turning to solar energy to power its desalination plants, the country still uses an estimated 300,000 barrels of oil a day to keep its coastal facilities running—more oil than most of the world's countries consume in a day.
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"The selective separation of water molecules from ions by physical restriction of interlayer spacing opens the door to the synthesis of inexpensive membranes for desalination," wrote Ram Devanathan of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, in an accompanying news-and-views article in the journal.
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RIYADH/DUBAI (Reuters) - Saline Water Conversion Corp (SWCC), which operates desalinization plants and power stations in Saudi Arabia, has asked banks for proposals for an advisory role on the sale of stakes in assets such as desalination plants, two people familiar with the matter said.
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"Iran knows that a full-scale military conflict would bring down a destructive response from the United States, and the Saudis know it would mean crippling damage to more critical facilities along the Gulf coast — not just oil installations but water desalination plants," he said.
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"Realization of scalable membranes with uniform pore size down to atomic scale is a significant step forward and will open new possibilities for improving the efficiency of desalination technology," Rahul Nair, professor of material physics at the University of Manchester, said in a statement.
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The Palestinian Water Authority, in partnership with international institutions including the European Commission (EC), the European Investment Bank, the Union for the Mediterranean, the Islamic Development Bank and World Bank, has already prepared a comprehensive and integrated investment program for the Gaza central desalination plant.
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Even in Saudi Arabia, where vast oil reserves (and the wealth that comes from them) have made the country the world's desalination leader, responsible for about one-fifth of global production, there is a realization that the process must be made more affordable and sustainable.
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Egypt is taking steps to shore up its water supply by other means: recycling agricultural drainage water and treated wastewater, increasing the number of desalination plants that supply coastal areas, and restricting the cultivation of water-intensive crops including rice, sugar cane and bananas.
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According to the report, which is part of the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health's project on Unconventional Water Resources, the amount of toxic brine produced at desalination plants—which convert salt water into drinkable fresh water—is 50 percent higher than previously estimated.
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ABU DHABI, Aug 1 (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates' only privately owned utility, Utico Middle East, will invest about $185 million to more than double its water desalination capacity in two years, aiming to chip away at state-owned rivals' market dominance, it said on Monday.
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ABU DHABI, July 9 (Reuters) - Federal Electricity & Water Authority (FEWA), and a consortium of ACWA Power and a subsidiary of Mubadala Investment Co, have sealed a water purchase agreement for a desalination plant in Umm Al Quwain, one of the seven emirates in the United Arab Emirates.
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Graphene -- an ultra-thin sheet of carbon atoms organized in a hexagonal lattice -- was first identified at the University of Manchester in 2002 and has since been hailed as a "wonder material," with scientists racing to develop inexpensive graphene-based barriers for desalination on an industrial scale.
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With heavy financial injections from Saudi Arabia and other oil-rich Gulf monarchies, that area would serve for the construction of a solar power station, a desalination plant, a seaport and an airport and the establishment of industrial areas where Gaza Palestinians and Egyptians could work.
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While the Tampa Bay region is known as an environmentally friendly area (it's among a handful of regions in the U.S. that have built desalination plants to diversify their water supply), Pinellas County as a whole voted Republican in the presidential election, while St. Petersburg voted Democrat.
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With the power surplus provided by such a facility, the researchers say you could help realize other difficult, large-scale environmental projects, such as desalination of seawater and transporting it to regions that suffer from freshwater scarcity, in turn bolstering health, food production, and even biodiversity.
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To be sure, proposals for Gaza infrastructure projects are commonplace: In February, Israel called on international donors to fund a billion-dollar rebuilding plan, including big-ticket items like two desalination plants, a natural gas pipeline and a new electrical transmission line into Gaza from Israel.
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"The choice of Reverse Osmosis sea water desalination technology will play a critical part in significantly reducing water production costs, contributing to our goals to build a more sustainable and efficient water and energy sector in the UAE," Othman Al Ali, chief executive of EWEC told reporters.
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"We can use one membrane to finish the work of two or three," said Zhe Tan, a graduate student at Zhejiang University in China and first author of the paper, which means less energy and lower cost if used for large-scale desalination operations in the future.
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DUBAI/RIYADH, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Several banks have submitted bids to Saudi Arabia's Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) to advise on the privatisation of its $7.2 billion Ras Al Khair desalination and power plant, banking sources said, as the kingdom gears up for several state asset sales.
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While expensive, energy-intensive desalination options have received considerable attention, wastewater recycling technologies have improved to the point that clean, safe water can now be delivered at reduced energy cost and can even be an energy source by using the organic matter in wastewater to produce energy.
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To make it more affordable and accessible, researchers around the world are studying how to improve desalination processes, devising more effective and durable membranes, for example, to produce more water per unit of energy, and better ways to deal with the highly concentrated brine that remains.
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Unlike many countries around the world, countries in the Middle East are not able to benefit from Israel's innovation and creativity in many of these areas — water desalination and conservation; technology; its expertise in countering the destabilizing effects of terrorism; and Iranian maleficent military exploits, to name a few.
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In the end, reducing demand saved 107 billion liters (28 billion gallons) of water per year in Melbourne during the drought — equivalent to roughly 70 percent of the capacity of the city's controversial $4.5 billion desalination plant, at a fraction of the cost, according to Feldman and his colleagues.
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The agreements included the decision to create a bilateral technology innovation fund worth $40 million for research in industrial development, and to establish a strategic partnership in water and agriculture to focus on water conservation, waste-water treatment and its reuse for agriculture and desalination, among other deals.
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And while they found that permeation rates for the membranes decrease exponentially with decreasing sieve size, they also report that water transport itself is only "weakly affected" — meaning the filtered water flows through the membrane relatively quickly; an important factor if the aim is to develop affordable desalination technology.
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As things get worse, those who can afford to protect themselves — move their military bases, build sea walls and desalination plants, claim newly navigable land in the Arctic — will pull farther and farther away from those who can't (the global poor, who did so little to cause the problem).
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The Obama administration took a step in the right direction in its most recent budget by setting aside $267 million for increasing efficient use of water, and for innovating ways to bring down the cost of and energy consumption of desalination, reuse and other sources of new water supply.
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They hammered out creative ways to bring solar power, sewage treatment and clean water to the impoverished Gaza Strip, where the lights are out more than they are on, the aquifers are befouled, and raw sewage has been pouring into the Mediterranean — sometimes overwhelming a nearby Israeli desalination plant with pollution.
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This marks the latest exchange in a dispute between Hyflux and its white knight, which has also warned Hyflux that it could walk away from the deal if the company does not fix defaults that could allow its prized Tuaspring desalination and power plant to be taken over by Singapore's public water agency.
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These are based on a design first patented in the early 2141.5s by Sidney Loeb, an American scientist who moved to Israel and saw his invention eventually oust competing methods and become the dominant desalination technology not just in his new homeland, but around the world, accounting for 2300% of the output of desalinated water.
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According to Saudi Arabia's state news agency, SWCC has hired legal, financial and technical advisers for the construction of two desalination plants, one located in Al-Shuqaiq in the bordering areas of Jazan and Asser, and one located on the Red Sea coast town of Yanbu, which will be serving the holy site of Medina.
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Taiwan, Vietnam and Malaysia also have communities in the Spratlys, but they enjoy far better living standards Defence minister Delfin Lorenzana visited Thitu with journalists aboard a C-130 plane on Friday to inspect sites earmarked for 1.6 billion pesos ($32.1 million) of development, including a small fishing port, a beaching ramp, desalination facilities, and runway repairs.
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