Sentences with phrase «desalination plant»

BY MICHAEL RICONDA The Rockland Water Coalition hosted an occasionally heated debate between candidates for county executive on the evening of April 18, covering issues ranging from United Water's proposed desalination plant in Haverstraw to the continued issues surrounding Indian Point.

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

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.

He says this is simply the first step as he scales up: his long - term goal is to generate electricity from organic factory waste to power desalination plants in poor countries.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Now, a much - reduced version of the pipeline seems to be the most prominent solution: This year, bidding began to construct a pipe that would bring briny Red Sea wastewater from a new desalination plant in Jordan to the Dead Sea.

But for only a small fraction of the $ 2.8 billion a year the U.S. gives Israel in military and economic aid it could provide the subsidies that would make desalination plants economical.

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Speakers condemned the company's request to recover millions of dollars from a scuttled desalination plant as part of the proposed increase.

The International Desalination Association says that as of 2007 there were about 13,000 desalination plants operating around the world.

Reef Encounter has its own onboard water desalination plant so guests have the luxury of unlimited showers.

While the first jointly owned desalination plants would provide water for the West Bank, subsequent plants would provide water for Gaza and Israel.

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

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.

Two onboard desalination plants produce 200 tons of fresh water per day, more than is consumed even when the standard crew is joined by 100 or more paying passengers.

[18] Wave - powered desalination plants began operating on Garden Island in Western Australia in 2013 [19] and in Perth in 2015.

Recommendations from government's review of the Teshie Desalination Plant said to be draining the Ghana Water Company of some GHc 6 million monthly will be ready in two weeks.

Some industry insiders had told Citi News that there was no need to have established the Teshie Water Desalination plant because around the same time, the Kpong Water Treatment plant was being expanded to supply over 40 million gallons of water to the Accra East Region.

However, conventional desalination plants consume large amounts of energy.

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Existing desalination plants rely on reverse osmosis, vacuum distillation, or a combination of the two.

In 2006 its first reverse osmosis desalination plant opened in Perth.

The Deep Water Desal facility would require substantially less energy to operate than typical desalination plants, use renewable energy sources, and provide cooling for a data center that would be built in tandem.

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

Rockland County Legislature Holds Public Discussion on Desalination Plant added by dskriloff on October 11, 2012 View all posts by dskriloff →

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

NEW CITY — The Rockland County Legislature met at 7 p.m. on October 3 during which a number of speakers offered opinions and suggestions regarding United Water's proposed desalination plant project.

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.

Now we have more expensive desalination plants on standby and of course plenty of coal fired power stations to run them.

Case and point, the rise of energy intensive desalination plants in drought - ridden areas.

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

Many desalination plants use distillation processes, which require heating water to boiling temperature and harvesting the purified water vapors, or reverse osmosis, in which strong pumps suck energy to pressurize the liquids.

The goal is to develop a better way to solve hugely complex problems like improving air traffic control and desalination plant operations — even if the data is a big jumble.

Come hear Rockland County Executive candidates tell us their views on the environmental issues affecting Rockland's future — including United Water's proposed Hudson River desalination plant, land use development, planning and zoning, water management, energy use, «green» growth and economic development.

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.

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.