Furthermore, even 20 desalination plants would only add a cup to California's water bucket.
Environmental issues aside, the biggest challenge for Poseidon, and desalination in general, is cost.
In federal water desalination policy, why the politically preferred brackish groundwater desalination instead of seawater?
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Desalination removes salt by forcing water against a membrane to remove salts via reverse osmosis.
Desalination, in fact, may be a solution for those regions now fishing for fresh water supplies.
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"Desalination started here 50 years ago, " said Corrado Sommariva, president of the International Desalination Association.
Desalination has increased as the UAE's population has grown, bringing with it other unwanted environmental impacts.
Ocean water desalination will not be a viable source of water for agriculture for decades.
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Desalination energy inputs have been reduced more than 50 percent in the past decade.
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Innovation in desalination was a feature at the Blue Tech Forum in San Francisco last week.
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We send in small-scale desalination equipment, which is also costly, technically complex, and limited in capacity.
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The lake is an industrial byproduct of the desalination system used to meet the UAE's water needs.
Tokyo-based Haman Technologies is fielding its own cutting-edge desalination technology, based on innovative engineering rather than nanotechnology.
Indeed, Tampa and El Paso have large desalination plants that are seldom running at full capacity.
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On the desalination front Doosan has now built five plants in Saudi Arabia, with five more under construction.
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Qatar gets 100 percent of its drinking water from desalination, and concentrated brine is expelled into the Persian Gulf.
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The only means to increase fresh water supply, desalination, requires big energy supplies.
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The company is working with an engineering and construction company in Singapore to build a pilot desalination plant there.
The proposed power plants would simultaneously provide energy to seawater desalination plants in the Middle East and North Africa.
Desalination technology has historically been more widely embraced by countries with scarce water resources, such as the Middle East.
At the same time, South East Water is planning to pilot a small desalination plant in Newhaven, East Sussex.
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In fact, 50% of all the world's desalination takes place in the Gulf.
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The company is now growing its portfolio from municipal wastewater projects to include industrial contracts, desalination and water-reuse projects.
He believed that nuclear power, driving desalination plants, could transform deserts into farmland.
Route 66 boasted a full luxury interior with air-conditioning, desalination equipment and even an air compressor for underwater breathing hoses.
Poseidon's solution is to develop two of the world's largest desalination plants within miles of each other in Southern California.
Last month the University of Johannesburg narrowly defeated a motion to cancel its water desalination research agreement with Ben-Gurion University.
People in the main cities now have enough water, thanks to desalination, though they still have to pay for it.
This plant is a small-scale model of two desalination plants Poseidon is proposing, one for Carlsbad and another for Huntington Beach.
Desalination is about energizing economic progress as well as providing an estimated one billion people worldwide access to potable water.
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