Sentences with phrase «large desalination»

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.

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.

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.

The largest desalination plant in the United States is in Tampa Bay, less than 20 miles from Max's lab, and it has been off - line for months.

From historic rivers to the world's largest desalination plant, from a futuristic city to a 100 - year - old tree - planting

Not exact matches

California boasts the eighth - largest economy in the world and technology prowess that helped develop — among many other things — desalination in the 1950s.

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.

Desalination plants could help provide water in large population centers, but they also increase carbon pollution, Davies said.

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

Only a few major seawater desalination plants exist in the U.S.; the largest operates in Tampa, Fla., and a project twice the size is being developed in Carlsbad, Calif..

We are standing above the new Sorek desalination plant, the largest reverse - osmosis desal facility in the world, and we are staring at Israel's salvation.

However, conventional desalination plants consume large amounts of energy.

«Water desalination and nanofiltration are big applications where, if things work out and this technology withstands the different demands of real - world tests, it would have a large impact,» Karnik says.

analysis of large scale projects such as dams, desalination plants and water transfer projects 3.

Venture capitalist friends were helping me with politicians, who came on board and were talking with the California state and federal governments about upcoming desalination projects and how we might be able to save them money on their new large scale initiatives.

Other possibly minor factors include irrigation runoff with soil leached salts (chlorides and sulphates) and the fact that large cities (eg Sydney) are looking to desalination of seawater.

The constraint is then one of having enough energy for desalination in large amounts.

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

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.

As the first solar desalination project, next year, the Saudis will flip the switch on the world's largest solar desalination project, producing 30,000 cubic metres of water per day for 100,000 residents of Al - Khafji near Kuwait.

Looking at large scale desalination you can easily look at the demand side as well (not only desalination though) and adjust its power consumption to (solar) power availability again using decentralised solutions.

This government assistance would be warranted by the «insurance» value of blackout protection, just as Sydney's desalination plant provides the nation's largest city crucial «insurance» against running out of water.

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.

Four years behind schedule and nearly $ 80 million over the original budget, the nation's largest sea water desalination facility finally supplies much - needed drinking water to 2.4 million people in the Tampa Bay region.

She and Deal had quickly found that providing clean water on large scales, such as through desalination, can be quite energy - intensive.