Sentences with word «desalination»

In the past, many islands depended on fresh water lenses to provide drinking water, but overexploitation of this resource has caused problems and created the need for water desalination plants on many of the islands.

Rockland shouldn't need «special status» to voice its concerns about the proposed Hudson River water desalination plant in Haverstraw.

Grossman's lab has demonstrated strong results showing that new filters made from graphene could greatly improve the energy efficiency of desalination plants while potentially reducing other costs as well.

Recent progress in desalination technology makes such a move feasible.

The Environmental Protection Agency Friday will honor a grassroots group that combatted a controversial proposed desalination plant in Rockland County.

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.

This wind - powered desalination plant uses an inexpensive reverse osmosis technology to scrub salts and impurities from water in the Uletsumana Wayuu community on Colombia's Guajira Peninsula.

Israel now gets 55 percent of its domestic water from desalination, and that has helped to turn one of the world's driest countries into the unlikeliest of water giants.

This would be the first solar desalination facility California has.

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

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.

The Surfrider Foundation filed appeal today of Superior Court Judge Judith F. Hayes» ruling siding with the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board's determination to allow «open ocean» intake to withdraw seawater for an ocean desalination facility on the Carlsbad coast, the largest ever planned in the United States, and the first to be scrutinized by the California courts.

Using Solar Energy to Improve Desalination Process.

The U.S. can do something to alleviate this problem and, in the process, better prepare itself and the rest of the world to deal with their own water shortages: it can offer to finance a series of large desalination plants to greatly increase the supply of water in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza.

Lower cost electricity makes desalination cheaper and pumping cheaper.

When there is a falling amount of surplus electricity, reduce the number of desalination units running.

A new desalination water system has been installed and will soon be followed by a second one.

These teams have designed a range of solutions using biomimicry, such as desalination by looking to mangrove forests, soil remediation by emulating the digestive tract of earthworms, and a peer - to - peer networking app whose algorithm mimics the communication function found in a flock of birds.

Water produced by desalination costs just a third of what it did in the 1990s.

The paper mentions combining brines from ocean desalination plants with seawater.

But many reverse - osmosis facilities and devices remove even more salt ions, says Tom Pankratz, director of the International Desalination Association in Topsfield, Massachusetts.

Now International Desalination Association (IDA) formed a committee to investigate about it.

This technology has the potential to revolutionise water filtration across the world, in particular in countries which can not afford large scale desalination plants.

Each center targets an important challenge for the country, from improved desalination techniques and growing crops resistant to drought and salt to the massive production and distribution of solar energy.

The area's new airport itself is made up of 80 percent recycled material and hosts its own desalination system for providing water to the terminals.

«Take a bunch of seawater, squeeze it, pump gases through it, heat it, et cetera, and at some level, you can get most of the salt out,» says desalination consultant Birkett.

«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.

Unlike the existing reverse - osmosis membranes responsible for more than half of the world's current water desalination capacity, the new membrane process dehydrates ions as they pass through the membrane channels and removes only select ions, rather than indiscriminately removing all ions.

Sand City's new reverse - osmosis desalination facility aims to keep costs down and drinking water production up with the help of energy - recovery technology

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 State government, in its wisdom, has opted for a very controversial desalination plant in Sydney's south.

Berkeley Lab is launching a new research institute to focus resources on its growing portfolio of projects for water innovation — from nano - engineered desalination solutions to ultra-high resolution climate modeling for watershed predictions to novel groundwater management approaches.

But a bug - powered desalination cell that takes salt out of seawater may cut the cost of quenching the world's thirst.

Atmocean bowed out of the weather modification business in 2007 and has since pivoted toward using wave energy to drive desalination and onshore aquaculture.

By financing desalination plants, the U.S. could also greatly decrease the tensions in the area, turn barren land into rich farmland, some of which could be used for resettling those in refugee camps, and encourage economic cooperation between Israel and Palestine that would provide a powerful incentive for peace.

A new process to decompose waste desalination brine using solar energy, which neutralises ocean acidity and reduces environmental impact, has been proposed by an Aston University (UK) academic.

Riverkeeper President and Coalition member Paul Gallay called desalination a «draconian» solution to supply problems due to its price figure and requested the PSC hold collaborative talks with United Water on alternatives.

However, conventional desalination plants consume large amounts of energy.

Plans for a massive desalination plant at Port Bonython are already generating environmental opposition regarding industrial development of an isolated coastal site known for cuttlefish spawning.