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Desalination
Background from Wikipedia Desalination refers to any of several processes (e.g. reverse osmosis) that remove the excess salt and other minerals from water in order to obtain fresh water suitable for animal consumption or irrigation, and if almost all of the salt is removed, for human consumption, sometimes producing table salt as a by-product. Desalination of brackish water is already commonplace in the U.S., where it is used to meet treaty obligations for river water entering Mexico. Indeed, desalination has spread into use in over a hundred countries, with Saudi Arabia accounting for about 24% of total world capacity. Kuwait built the world's first large-scale desalination plant in the 1960s. Kuwait's energy reserves are so great that Kuwait is unique in using desalinated water for agriculture. The world's largest (reverse osmosis) desalination plant is in Ashkelon, Israel. It began operating on August 4, 2005, and it is capable of producing 100 million cubic meters of water per year. San Luis Obispo Tribune,By Nick Wilson A desalination plant that could cost up to $100 million appears to be the likeliest option for an additional water source in Nipomo, PM pledges $10m for Adelaide desal plant - 22 Oct 2007 ABC Online,Prime Minister John Howard has pledged to help pay for a desalination plant in Adelaide. The announcement was made at a nursery in Burton in Adelaide's Altela Collects $7.1M in Series B Financing - 22 Oct 2007 techrockies.com,Altela Inc., a developer of water desalination and purification technologies, announced Monday that it has concluded its initial round of venture financing Ashgabat approves projects worth $500 mln - 22 Oct 2007 Turkish Daily News (subscription),Polimex is scheduled to build a canal in the picturesque Turkmenbashi region on the Caspian Sea, and also construct a water desalination plant as well as a County commissioners make wishlist - 22 Oct 2007 Rio Rancho Observer,By Jimmy Currier, Observer staff writer BERNALILLO - Transportation, fire stations, senior programs, Native American elections, a desalination project and Angry farmers want water fix as pressure mounts - 22 Oct 2007 Melbourne Herald Sun,The report recommended extending urban water reform to include all supply options, such as recycling and desalination, best-practice climate change scenario Water level alert looms as dams look damned - 22 Oct 2007 The Age,...including the Goulburn Valley food bowl upgrade and the Gippsland desalination plant, as solutions to Melbourne's water shortage by 2012. Desalination plant 'a white elephant' - Oct 18, 2007 Sydney Morning Herald,Construction of the controversial new desalination plant began in July and is expected to be completed by early 2010. The Nature Conservation Council of NSW Protesters says desalination plan a waste of money - Oct 18, 2007 ABC Online,...of white elephants have held a protest outside the New South Wales Parliament against the State Government's plans to build a desalination plant. Cal Am will operate new Sand City desalination plant - Oct 18, 2007 San Jose Mercury News,California American Water will operate the planned Sand City desalination plant, which is designed to ease the amount of water taken from the Carmel River. Water dilemma could 'sink' Government - Oct 20, 2007 The Age,But the commission suggests that such a disincentive to use water might not be a smart idea in light of the planned desalination plant and extensive new Water, climate are keys - Oct 21, 2007 Melbourne Herald Sun,The Bracks-Brumby governments have backed radical measures including a desalination plant and pipelines to shift water to secure urban supplies. Desalination plant first phase to be over by May - Oct 16, 2007 Hindu,CHENNAI: The first phase of the desalination plant in Minjur, to supply about 15 million litres of water a day (mld) to the city, will be completed by Poseidon’s Desalination Design a Decade Late - Oct 16, 2007 Voice of San Diego,By Joe Geever Monday, Oct. 15, 2007 | Poseidon Resources is proposing an ocean desalination plant in Carlsbad to sell water to local water agencies in the A study on the development aspects of Renewable Energy Technology ... - Oct 20, 2007 Al-Bawaba,However, DEWA does contract work out to private companies (mainly foreign) to build both the power stations and desalination plants. Rhode Island Desalination Plant Polluting Lobster Nursery - Oct 15, 2007 YubaNet,A desalination plant for a new Rhode Island yacht club is seriously jeopardizing an adjacent lobster nursery habitat, according to an investigation SAWS officials visit desalination El Paso plant - Oct 3, 2007 Bizjournals.com,Once at the desalination plant, SAWS officials will then witness the reverse osmosis process that removes salt and other impurities from the water before Desalination plant needs back-up plan - Sep 27, 2007 San Diego Union Tribune,By Michael Burge CARLSBAD – The developer of a proposed desalination plant is drafting a plan to tap ocean water flowing through the Encina Power Station Desalination cheaper for Vic vineyard owner - Sep 30, 2007 ABC Online,Don Spence says it will cost him a $100000 to build a desalination plant and pump water from a bore 800 metres away. He says, with no other vineyards in his NSW govt denies desalination 'blow-out' - Sep 23, 2007 Sydney Morning Herald,NSW Water Utilities Minister Nathan Rees has denied media reports of a $73 million cost blow-out for Sydney's planned desalination plant. Desalination cost has blown out: Libs - Sep 23, 2007 The Age,The NSW opposition has ridiculed government assurances that a $73 million rise in the stated cost of Sydney's desalination plant is not a price blow-out. Desal plant plans don't help: Greens - Oct 14, 2007 Sydney Morning Herald,The Greens have slammed NSW government claims that a wind-powered desalination plant will reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The government plans to buy Solar salt solution? - Oct 14, 2007 The Age,The researchers use computer simulation and experimental tests of equipment to develop desalination technologies that could ease severe water shortages in Greens backtrack on desalinization in favor of reducing water usage - Oct 13, 2007 Ha'aretz,By Zafrir Rinat The dedication several weeks ago of the Palmahim water desalination plant points to the accelerated pace with which such facilities are Meeting next week to discuss desalination in Cambria - Oct 11, 2007 San Luis Obispo Tribune,Advisers for a national marine sanctuary and members of the public can hear presentations about desalination and the state’s marine protected areas at a Try desalination - Oct 12, 2007 Daily Press,Sure, it costs more to make fresh water from sea water, but let's stop this stupidity and build the needed desalination plants. It's sure to be cheaper than Report clears way for Traveston Dam - Oct 18, 2007 Sydney Morning Herald,The EIS, released in state parliament on Thursday, also found alternatives - including a Sunshine Coast desalination plant, a series of smaller dams on the Wave farm could soon make a splash - Oct 16, 2007 ABC Science Online,Commercial wave-powered water desalination and electricity generation is one step closer to reality, report Australian developers. Bones found on Sydney desalination plant site - Oct 9, 2007 Ninemsn,The controversial desalination plant was confirmed by the Iemma Government in June this year as Sydney's dam levels dipped below 40 percent. Mayor stops council junket - Oct 19, 2007 Gold Coast News,..."I realise that the desalination plant is under state control but council still has an interest in it," said Cr Pforr. "The purpose of the trip was to lobby Saving water and money - Oct 17, 2007 Melbourne Herald Sun,A BILLION litres of water makes up a gigalitre and the Victorian Government is spending $3.1 billion dollars to build a desalination plant that will produce Desalination meets desert city's water challenge - Oct 4, 2007 Engineer Live,One of the world’s largest inland desalination projects has just been commissioned. It uses reverse osmosis technology to guarantee a 50-year supply of Jordan to set up desalination plant in Aqaba - Oct 7, 2007 People's Daily Online,Jordan will set up a water desalination plant in the Red Sea coastal city of Aqaba in the coming year to address water shortage, local newspaper Jordan Making artificial rain in New Mexico - Oct 19, 2007 CNet News.com BlogSome of the more interesting companies that have emerged in the past few years include NanoH2O (efficient desalination membrane out of UCLA), Wind power cost in bill rise: Iemma - Oct 15, 2007 Sydney Morning Herald,Powering Sydney's desalination plant with wind power has already been factored into a water bill increase for Sydney households, the NSW government says. Is San Diego County Facing Water Crisis? - Oct 18, 2007 KGTV, 10News.com,Those opposed to toilet-to-tap often suggest desalination as a solution, but not everyone is on board with that idea, the I-Team learned. The proposal? Desalination needs support - Oct 4, 2007 North County Times,Back in 2000, a company known as Poseidon Resources proposed building a desalination plant in Carlsbad that would turn ocean water into clean drinking water Wind turbines to power desal plant - Oct 14, 2007 NEWS.com.au,SEVENTY-FIVE wind turbines, from up to six wind farms around NSW, will supply power to Sydney's controversial desalination plant. Removing the Salt from Ocean Water (desalination) a Feasible Fix ... - Sep 29, 2007 HealthNewsDigest.com,Desalination—a process whereby highly pressurized ocean water is pushed through tiny membrane filters and distilled into drinking water—is being held forth UAE firm keen to enter India - Oct 11, 2007 Hindu,CHENNAI: UAE-based Tecton Engineering & Construction LLC is keen to enter the Indian market in the field of water projects and desalination plants through Desalination unit planned in Aqaba - Oct 6, 2007 Middle East North Africa Financial Network,...(MENAFN - Jordan Times) AMMAN (JT) - Water authorities announced yesterday plans to address water shortage, including the building of a water desalination Altela, Inc. Receives $7.1 million in Series A Investment - Oct 17, 2007 PR Newswire (press release),CEO Dave Werklund said, "Our partnership with the Altela team and its revolutionary water desalination technology represents a strategic fit for our Metso Automation valves order for seawater desalination plant in ... - Sep 26, 2007 Jobwerx,Metso Automation order of 300 control valves, for the facility in Saudi Arabia, will be for one of the largest thermal seawater desalination plants in the United Water submits Hudson River desalination plans - Oct 1, 2007 White Plains Journal News,By LAURA INCALCATERRA United Water New York has submitted plans that would lead to the construction of a desalination plant on the Hudson River, Investors High on Water - Oct 18, 2007 Greentech Media,Energy can make up 50 percent of the cost of water-treatment projects, so more energy-efficient technologies could make purification and desalination Dubai to host congress on water desalination - Sep 23, 2007 Gulf News,Dubai: Dubai will host the IDA World Congress on Desalination and Water Reuse 2009, under an agreement between Technopark, the science and technology Desalination group to host town hall - Sep 25, 2007 Orange County Register,By ANNIE BURRIS HUNTINGTON BEACH The Residents for Responsible Desalination (R4RD) will hold its second town hall 7 pm Oct. 2 at the cafeteria of Eader Cal Am to run new desal plant - Oct 18, 2007 Monterey County Herald,By ANDRE BRISCOE In a move to slow pumping water from the Carmel River, California American Water will lease and operate Sand City's desalination plant when NSW wind power commitment questioned - Oct 14, 2007 ABC Online,Doubts have surfaced about the New South Wales Government's commitment to fully power the proposed desalination plant at Kurnell, in Sydney's south, Approval for desal but work is begun - Oct 17, 2007 Daily Telegraph,By Clare Masters, Political Reporter THE last piece of the desalination plant jigsaw is expected to fall into place this month, with Planning Minister Frank News index | RSS | News Feed Advertisements: Organic Apparel from Patagonia | Insect-repelling clothing |
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