Sentences with phrase «sea water desalination»

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.

The electricity is purchased by Synergy Energy and some of it goes to the sea water desalination plant at Kwinana.

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

Further technologies for sea water desalination to obtain potable water would also be undertaken.

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At Virgin, we've dipped a toe in the water (excuse the pun) through our Green Fund, by backing Seven Seas Water, a desalination business that designs, constructs, installs and operates water plants across the Caribbean and the Amerwater (excuse the pun) through our Green Fund, by backing Seven Seas Water, a desalination business that designs, constructs, installs and operates water plants across the Caribbean and the AmerWater, a desalination business that designs, constructs, installs and operates water plants across the Caribbean and the Amerwater plants across the Caribbean and the Americas.

Enormous investments in desalination of sea water technology and systems are expected in the years ahead as current desalination techniques are very energy demanding leading to significant CO2 emissions.

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Carbon nanotube (CNT) membranes have a bright future in addressing the world's growing need to purify water from the sea, researchers say in a study published in the journal Desalination.

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.

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.

Brine from the desalination plant would be discharged into the already - saline Dead Sea, replenishing water that is evaporating from the lake at a rate of more than 1 meter per year.

With one - third of the planet's population lacking sufficient drinking water, governments are increasingly looking to desalination to produce fresh water from seas and estuaries.

Products needed by those vulnerable to rising seas and stormier weather associated with climate change include: (1) desalination capacities for drinking water (2) soil washing and / or new crops to deal with salinization of soils from rising seas flooding them and then receding (3) shelters from wind and storm surges that would not require people to abandon their possessions and animals to the forces of nature they are trying to escape

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.

Water purification and desalination equipment can turn dirty water or sea water into clean drinkable water, but many of the existing water solutions, on top of being rather costly, also require additional inputs, from energy to materials, and other than passive solar stills (which tend to have low yields), there aren't a whole lot of other options, especially if portability and affordability are factored in to the equaWater purification and desalination equipment can turn dirty water or sea water into clean drinkable water, but many of the existing water solutions, on top of being rather costly, also require additional inputs, from energy to materials, and other than passive solar stills (which tend to have low yields), there aren't a whole lot of other options, especially if portability and affordability are factored in to the equawater or sea water into clean drinkable water, but many of the existing water solutions, on top of being rather costly, also require additional inputs, from energy to materials, and other than passive solar stills (which tend to have low yields), there aren't a whole lot of other options, especially if portability and affordability are factored in to the equawater into clean drinkable water, but many of the existing water solutions, on top of being rather costly, also require additional inputs, from energy to materials, and other than passive solar stills (which tend to have low yields), there aren't a whole lot of other options, especially if portability and affordability are factored in to the equawater, but many of the existing water solutions, on top of being rather costly, also require additional inputs, from energy to materials, and other than passive solar stills (which tend to have low yields), there aren't a whole lot of other options, especially if portability and affordability are factored in to the equawater solutions, on top of being rather costly, also require additional inputs, from energy to materials, and other than passive solar stills (which tend to have low yields), there aren't a whole lot of other options, especially if portability and affordability are factored in to the equation.

Marine birds, such as sea gulls, are able to drink salt water because their bodies have a sophisticated desalination system that extracts excess salt from their blood via glands found near their eyes and excretes it from their nostrils where it runs down grooves in their bills.