Sentences with phrase «building desalination»

Building many pipelines like the ones they build for oil would create «green jobs» (as well as building desalination systems) and provide fresh water to poor countries that so desperately need it.

Some southern cities propose building desalination plants to treat water from the Pacific.

United Water New York, the company that supplies most of Rockland County's drinking water, has proposed building a desalination plant it calls the Haverstraw Water Supply Project.

And most remarkably, although Cape Town sits on a long seacoast hugging the southern Atlantic Ocean, officials delayed building desalination plants for the city.

So I feel like this is irresponsible action at this time, to build this desalination plant in this time of financial crisis.»

Conversely, San Diego, which desperately needs more drinking water, now wants to build a desalination plant up the coast, but local activists are fighting the facility because it would consume so much energy and the power supply is thin.

Alternatively, Nevada could build a desalination plant near the coast of California or Mexico.

Shanghai Electric Power Generation Group will partner with a Saudi Arabian firm to build desalination plants all over the world while Dalian Petrochemical is building China's largest wastewater utililzation plant.

At the same time there has been little interest in building infrastructure that would let us use the half of the water in the state that simply flows to the ocean in the northern part of the state or to build desalination plants in the south.

Not exact matches

In addition, desalination plants might be built to furnish water to areas in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, particularly if such areas were opened up for refugee resettlement.

Here is a workable scenario: A corporation owned by both Israeli and Palestinian interests (probably the governments, at least initially) builds one or more very large desalination plants and the necessary pipelines, develops the land to be irrigated, manages the farms on that land, and perhaps develops communities where the farm workers can live.

Later, electricity - generation and water - desalination plants would be built.

Water management technologies including micro irrigation, off - grid desalination, sprayable polymers, hydroponics and aeroponics for increasing sustainability in production and building in environmental credentials to a business's brand.

San Diego County is building the largest seawater desalination plant in the Western hemisphere, while Orange County plans to turn more wastewater into drinking water.

New City — A press conference was held at the County Legislature building in New City on September 24 to present a new study critiquing the need for a desalination plant at Haverstraw Bay and presenting potential alternatives to drawing drinking water from the Hudson.

Conventional desalination plants that employ reverse - osmosis technology, used since the 1960s, are pricey: The new Carlsbad desalination plant in California, which outputs 50 million gallons a day, cost $ 1 billion to build.

«You're going to have to make big hard decisions like, «I'm going to do what they did in the capital of the Maldives,» which was make a huge sea wall and build huge desalination facilities.

Utility - scale solar power plants and second - generation biofuels such as algae have led the field in recent financing rounds, but funding is now branching into less developed technologies such as bioplastics, green building materials and water desalination.

Fast - forward from that first lightbulb moment with the video through a couple of years refining the idea, patent approval, and the formation of Marine Desalination Systems in 1999 to the procurement of federal funding in 2001, and Max is in St. Petersburg, Florida, with a lab in a refurbished 1927 art deco building where Sealtest once made cherry - vanilla ice cream.

As such, this cost figure is expected to continue to rise, which is why California is now seriously considering desalination and why the city of Tampa, Fla., decided to build the biggest desalination plant in the U.S.

The researchers separate six key strategy areas for reducing water stress into «hard path» measures, involving building more reservoirs and increasing desalination efforts of sea water, and «soft path» measures that focus on reducing water demand rather than increasing water supply thanks to community - scale efforts and decision - making, combining efficient technology and environmental protection.

Desalination plants also require a lot of energy, and building new power plants is difficult because of the state's strict laws to control pollution.

Even more ambitious is the US$ 900 million Red Sea — Dead Sea Canal, a joint venture between Israel and Jordan to build a large desalination plant on the Red Sea, where they share a border, and divide the water among Israelis, Jordanians and the Palestinians.

Which is why California is planning on building a solar desalination plant in order to bring more freshwater for people in the Central Valley.

Other students made their own paint, lip gloss, and markers, explored desalination, built circuits, crystal radios, bridges, and solar - powered robotic creatures, and experimented with the perfect carbonated soda recipe.

Elsewhere, water grabbers are building dams and sinking wells to corral scarce supplies, or getting into desalination, or playing the water markets in Australia and California.

The Hadera desalination plant is one of five built in Israel after a severe drought in the 1990s.

a by 2030, expand international cooperation and capacity - building support to developing countries in water and sanitation related activities and programmes, including water harvesting, desalination, water efficiency, wastewater treatment, recycling and reuse technologies

«If Perth had not built the sea water desalination plants Perth would be in a Capetown (Sth Africa) situation.

By running the irrigation lines with built - in reverse osmosis membranes underground, the proposed irrigation system would use the pressure gradient supplied by the plants» roots to desalinize the water without the high amount of energy consumption usually associated with desalination.

HydroRevolution, a subsidiary of WaterFX, has announced plans to build a commercial solar desalination plant in California's Central Valley in order to provide a highly sustainable water source.

Sydney's desalination plant was built for contingency purposes.

Changes in transport (electric vehicles and fleet logistics), energy (solar and wind), buildings (insulation and lighting), materials (biochemical and nano materials), and water consumption (desalination and irrigation) are a few examples of the ways in which investors can allocate capital into assets that are positioned to succeed in this new economic reality.

Global Thermostat uses captured CO2 for water desalination, synthetic «clean» fuels, bio-fertilizers, green plastics, building materials, carbonated beverages, greenhouses and enhanced oil recovery to help solve the climate change crisis.

As water flows downward from the Gulf of Aqaba to the Dead Sea it will produce enough hydro - electricity to power the desalination plants that are to be built near the Dead Sea.

Australian activists convinced the government that global warming made droughts permanent, and desalination plants were built at great cost.

See for example the ludicrous desalination plants built in Australia, or the ten successive years of positive bias in year - ahead temperature forecasts in the UK, and the local difficulties encountered with shortage of de-icing resources at airports and for roads after heavy snow followed not long after forecasts of a mild winter there.

We could build lots of nuclear reactors and use them to power desalination plants to solve the one resource shortage we do have: water.

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