Sentences with phrase «desalination plants»

Many of the islands have already reached the limits of drinking water supply and must rely on mobile or permanent desalination plants to meet demand.

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.

Responsible for piping design of a range of following types of units and plants: Chemical plants, Coker units, petroleum refineries, and desalination plants.

Intensifying agriculture allows us to spare more wilderness from being used as farmland, while extensive desalination plants powered by advanced energy technologies could allow us to leave rivers flowing naturally into the sea rather than redirecting them to our farms and cities.

Maybe they could reopen those glorious desalination plants that saved all the Australians before they were shut down and mothballed.

Note this last point also applies to combined solar power / desalination plants in general.

Ocean turbine arrays in the pasages between the Antilles Islands can provide electric power for utility customers and desalination plants on the islands.

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

Seawater desalination plants cost around $ 1 for each litre per day capacity, and about $ 1 for each kilolitre of desalinated water they produce.

Dogz anything is possible if you have deep enough pockets, apart from the cost of the nuclear reactors and desalination plants, factor in the rest of the infastructure and it is a pipe dream.

Gubernatorial candidates make a host of promises: pipelines from the Great Lakes; water desalination plants; return to public ownership of previously privatized water systems; bringing in experts from the US West, formation of water resources planning councils, and more.

«Dubai: Every time desalination plants dump tons of brine carrying chemicals into the Arabian Gulf, sea temperatures rise by 10 degrees Celsius, according to researchers.»

It contains some cautious prediction about future growth of thermal and membrane desalination plants, but all of that could change if Mohammed Rasool Qtaisha, a

Australia is leading the way in everything from strategies to combat desertification to using renewable energy for desalination plants, and now it is putting that knowledge to work on six new infrastructure projects that can save 1.3 billion gallons of water.

Here in California, for example, there's a big political push for fossil - fueled desalination plants.

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.

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

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.

Why not have the desalination plants organized so that they switch on when power is abundant and switch off when the power supply declines?

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

Tim you convinced the pollies to spend 20 billion of our money on desalination plants in Australia that are now all mothballed.

It should be possible to set up desalination plants to run when there is excess electricity.

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.

The Deep Water Desal facility would require substantially less energy to operate than typical desalination plants.

I'd far rather we spend some money on putting in desalination plants in useful places around the World, use drip agriculture in places with plenty of sunlight, and actually address the issues.

Those «lines» from our highly salaried Palaeontologist weather guru, cost us taxpayers desalination plants worth $ 5.7 billion in Victoria, $ 1.8 million in South Australia, $ 2bn in NSW and $ 1.2 bn in Queensland.

Billions that could go to desalination plants for fresh water, irrigation projects, fusion power research, food for children, medical research and exotic propulsion systems to begin exploring our solar system and beyond.

The search has spanned the gamut from funding research, investing in expensive solutions like desalination plants, toying with the idea of recycling wastewater, imposing water - use restrictions, letting lawns go dry and experimenting with irrigation efficiency techniques for the crops that feed the country.

This can be a serious issue when we use natural gas to power desalination plants.

The multi billions of taxpayers» dollars spent on desalination plants in Australia at the behest of Flim - Flam Flannery, self proclaimed climatological seer, predicting dam - filling rainfall would be a thing of the past, might be a case in point.

The SWCC operates the 30 publicly - owned desalination plants and a network of pumping stations, reservoirs and all the pipes to transport the water in bulk from the plants to the major consumption centers.

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.

Sorek will profitably sell water to the Israeli water authority for 58 U.S. cents per cubic meter (1,000 liters, or about what one person in Israel uses per week), which is a lower price than today's conventional desalination plants can manage.

What's more, its energy consumption is among the lowest in the world for large - scale desalination plants.

They considered including using the waste heat for desalination, but the nuclear plants would need a major redesign to make the desalination plants commercially viable.

With its long coastline, many coastal power plants, and need for more water, California is a good place for this use of waste heat, and the last I read the plans are in for about 20 desalination plants.

In the Middle East and Africa, swarms have jammed hydroelectric and desalination plants, forcing them to shut down.

A TRULY worthy acknowledgement of Tim Flannery's contribution to the economy would be to dedicate his name to each of the country's mothballed desalination plants.

The Water in the West initiative at Stanford University has produced an invaluable package of analysis, graphics and recommendations on groundwater management, concluding that groundwater recharge — moving water from the surface into the state's natural subterranean aquifers — is far cheaper than other alternatives that are currently being developed, like added dams and surface reservoirs or desalination plants:

The east Mediterranean island faces an unprecedented water crisis which has seen reservoir reserves plunge dangerously low and desalination plants unable to cope with growing demand.

The solution I favor is drastically increasing research in desalination, followed by installing far more desalination plants everywhere.

Adelaide, Brisbane and now Melbourne use their desalination plants.

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

The Cape Verde Government has earmarked Boa Vista for major touristic development, approving plans for new hotels and Resorts, as well as investing in the Island's infrastructure, such as new roads, improved power supplies and desalination plants.

Solar - powered desalination plants can also transform seawater into clean water for drinking and agricultural use.

As time progressed, the clean water supply improved greatly with the implementation of desalination plants.

The Services segment offers engineering and management services, which include designing and constructing desalination of desalination plants and the management and operation of desalination plants owned by affiliated companies.

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Thomas Swan's commercial manager, Andy Goodwin, mentions flexible, low - cost electronic displays; graphene flakes have also been suggested for use in desalination plants and even condoms.

A big limitation in existing nanofiltration and reverse - osmosis desalination plants, which use filters to separate salt from seawater, is their low permeability: Water flows very slowly through them.