Desalination

By Josie Garthwaite Carbon capture and water desalination couldn't seem further apart. One seeks to grab large amounts of greenhouse gas emissions and ...

By Paul O'Callaghan Canadian firm, Saltworks Technologies, just came out of stealth in relation to their desalination technology, which they claim reduce the electrical energy required for desalination by over 70%. They report they can produce 1m3 of water ...

By Richard T. Stuebi Desalination is no theoretical pipe-dream: two desalination approaches have long existed to remove salt from water, distillation and reverse-osmosis. Regrettably, both are rather energy-intensive. No problem for the wealthy, ...

By envirothink Desalination – the ability produce much needed freshwater from seawater – has always been an expensive and energy-intensive proposition. But Vancouver, BC cleantech company Saltworks Technologies (http://3.ly/TXO) is about to ...

It says desalination will use 18 times more than the energy currently used to source Melbourne's water, or 2.6 times all the current energy use for Melbourne Water including sewerage (which is 76% of the current total). ...

Speaking at the IDA World Congress on Desalination and Water Reuse, Tom Pankratz, a director of the International Desalination Association and editor of Water Desalination Report published by...

The International Desalination Association (IDA) has announced plans to form a task force to explore the environmental effects of desalination on the Arabian Gulf and recommend strategies to...

By Aqua Blog Maven “SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Energy Recovery Inc, which makes equipment for desalination plants, sees the industry that converts sea water to fresh water growing as much as 25 percent annually and is looking to expand its operations ...

By J. Carl Ganter Desalination is held in great promise for a thirsty world where more than a billion people don't have adequate access to clean water and where California, Georgia and the American Southwest face revolving water-supply emergencies.

By Jordan Bates Many people believe that desalination of seawater is the ultimate solution to California (and the planet's) water problems. I've written about desalination in previous posts (see here and here), and have made it clear that I love the ...

By Josie Garthwaite If you can efficiently separate tiny molecules of salt from seawater, you probably have the technology to filter out the ...

By san A clever new method has been shown for cheaper desalination of water. It basically uses solar heating to convert seawater into concentrated brine, and then uses the ionic gradient between the concentrated brine and two seawater streams ...

By Prne DUBAI, UAE - It is estimated that the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region needs to add about 2.7 million Cu m/day of desalination capacity every year to meet the rising water demand in the region.

Situated in the rolling hills of Northern California's Capay Valley, Cache Creek Casino Resort is a model of sustainability. Owned and operated by the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, the tribe has made harmony with the land a top priority in all aspects of its resort operations. Naturally, that...

By New Logic Research Inc. While desalination was relatively easy to come by, brine management would prove to be more challenging. HydroScience turned to trusted partner Aquadyne Associates, who recommended New Logic's Vibratory Shear Enhanced Process (VSEP) as ...

By jfleck While much of the discussion of “new water” in the western United States involves desalination of seawater, there's an experiment getting underway outside Albuquerque that is part of a new approach to the problem: desalination of ...

By By Jeffrey Marlow Many communities are placing their bets on seawater desalination as a way to address rising demand and withering supply. An Israeli company vies to stay at the front of the game.

Environmental groups haven't given up their effort to derail the proposed ocean-water desalination plant in Carlsbad, telling the City Council, after it approved project changes Tuesday night, that they'll sue.

Any place that NEEDS desalinization really is just overpopulated OR is using water stupidly (or both). There are parts of the globe that shouldn't be heavily populated, or even populated at all - if it requires massive energy to make ...

Dear Pablo: My city wants to put in a desalination plant for drinking water. Environmentalists are opposed, which makes me wonder: What's so bad about desalination? Desalination is any process whereby salt and/or minerals are removed ...

Finally, mixing desalinated fluid with our reservoirs' pure rainwater would dramatically degrade the quality of drinking water we enjoy every day. ... Service planned for ex-MMWD directorMarin Independent-Journal

THIESS says the Victorian government has given the AquaSure consortium the green light to begin building the Victorian Desalination Project. ... Thiess consortium to deliver Victorian Desalination ProjectConstruction and Maintenance News

WHYALLA'S cuttlefish must be protected from the Olympic Dam desalination plant, the South Australian Tourism Commission has told the State Government. ... and more »

Water Desalination Using Novel Method Of Reverse Osmosis Promises ... press release) This greatly reduces the environmental burden and improves the economics of the inland desalination process." Gilron continues, "Water scarcity and the need ... and more »

The resolution also resulted in the formation of a new public entity, the Water and Electricity Company (WEC) as the sole purchaser of the desalinated water and electricity produced and there was government credit support in the form of purchase ...

Water and Wastewater Recent pilot testing has proven that the technology can achieve 97 per cent recovery on brackish water over an extended time period. ... Veolia buys rights to ZDD desalination technologydesalination.biz all 5 news articles »

 Qatar “We could even bring it down to less than $0.50 per cubic metre.” Seawater desalination provides over 99% of Qatar's municipal water demand. The first seawater desalination plant in the country was commissioned in 1953, with a capacity of 56mn cu m.

Over the last 12 years, Voutchkov has been instrumental in the implementation of all Poseidon projects, including the Tampa Bay Water Desalination Plant and the SWRO plants currently under development in Carlsbad and Huntington Beach, California. ...

 FL According to climate change, the Florida coast lines will be inundated with rising salt water. Desalination of this water would produce fresh water and not reduce the fresh water of our rivers and lakes. Use the stimulus package to help solve a future ...

By Jared Simpson For background, please read my 3/16 post, Desalination: No silver bullet in the Middle East and the comment by Desalter--John Tonner of Water Consultants International (WCI)--and my response: Breaking news: Company that builds desalination plants defends desalination! Therein I...

By Jared Simpson Your link to the referenced NatGeo article is broken. Pity I would have loved to read who the so-called “experts” were that think that way about desalination plants. Most desalination plants are good environmental citizens, properly regulated and diligently operated where ever they ar...

By Jared Simpson As the world is seeking to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels, desalination plants are factories like any other—generally dependent upon unsustainable energy sources. Experts fear large-scale use of desalination would exchange one environmental problem, freshwater shortages...

By Luke Dr Peter Fisher writes about desalination plant alternatives for Melbourne's water woes in The Age today. The article title "Big solutions for our water needs will use more energy" explains the energy hungry nature of desalination plants and puts forward some innovative alternatives...

 NM In ocean desalination plants, two parts of salt water are needed to produce one part drinkable water and some of the groundwater in New Mexico is much saltier. More than one year ago, the Alamogordo Chamber of Commerce water committee received an ...

By Alamogordo Daily News By Joan E. Price, For the Daily News The cost of new wells is $1 million to $2 million, D'Antonio points out and then, after the artesian effect of deep pumping is depleted, pumping and construction of desalination plants will require heavy energy needs. ...

By PRODS@WEBLOGSINC.COM (Steven Halpern) The senior equity analyst for the top-notch growth stock advisory, Xcelerated Profits Report explains, "Desalination is likely the only way the world's water needs will be met. And one company that will benefit is Energy Recovery ...

 NY - At MWD, Beuhler also oversaw implementation of the Desalination Research and Innovation Project, an effort that researched new ways to desalinate water, ...

 Pakistan - The meeting reviewed the supply situation of drinking water to Karachi, and considered implementing the 50 mgd water supply scheme for SITE and Defence with ...

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 Israel - The Soreq desalination plant will have a 100 million cubic meter a year capacity, making it one of the world's largest desalination plants. ...

By Marc Perkel One of the primary problems with desalination is dealing with the scale left behind. Ever swim in the ocean, then dry out in the sun? All that cruchy (and itchy) stuff left behind on your swim trunks is what would eventually (probably ...

By nick2 The drop off from the big island is so steep that they don’t have to go far from shore to reach 1700 feet. However, the salt water is not desalinated at 1700 feet. Ocean thermal energy conversion plants could provide islanders with much-needed power, as well as desalinated water.

By nick2 Yep. Yeppers. Yup. Someone did. Now the press release below does not mention the industrial production method that they are using. But it does say that an LLNL spinoff called Porifera is going to be making carbon nanotube membranes for water purification. The first benefit that is touted is the...

By Jared Simpson Seawater Greenhouse: Another commercial venture that uses a passive distillation method to desalinate ocean water and produce mini-climates for horticulture. The Perth, Australia reverse osmosis desalination plant: The largest in the Southern hemisphere and when at total capaci...

By 24/7 Wall St. While this sounds like an oil well play, the company is actually a desalination play that turns salt water into fresh water. The company is a developer and manufacturer of efficient energy recovery devices utilized in the rapidly ...

CARLSBAD – The California Coastal Commission staff has told the developer of an ocean-water desalination plant in Carlsbad that its permit application is complete and the proposal will go to the state commission in mid-November.

THE New South Wales Government has announced the name of its preferred tenderer to build Sydney's desalination plant.

HOUSEHOLD water bills will double to pay for one of the world's largest desalination plants and a major upgrade to pipes in Australia's largest irrigation district.

THE NSW Government has named the Connect Alliance consortium as designer and builder of the water delivery pipeline for Sydney's desalination plant.

PR-inside.com) PALO ALTO, Calif., May 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Desalination technologies are gaining prominence because of resultant high-degree pure water and effective handling of water shortage. The increasing need for clean water is the driving factor for advances in desalination tec...