The company is working with an engineering and construction company in Singapore to build a pilot desalination plant there.
At the same time, South East Water is planning to pilot a small desalination plant in Newhaven, East Sussex.
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It built the nation's current largest desalination plant in Tampa Bay, Fla.
In partnership with Canadian architect Ayrie Cunliffe, The Loreto Bay Company hoped to incorporate a seawater desalination plant and a 500-acre wind farm.
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More than one million people, it says, will be supplied this summer with water from Britain's first large-scale desalination plant in east London.
Just north of San Diego, on a site overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Poseidon Resources is building the biggest water desalination plant in the United States.
The largest desalination plant in the world is located in Ashkelon.
It is equivalent to the quantity of fresh water proposed to be imported from Turkey and the total annual production capacity of a major seawater desalination plant.
In Corralejo, a wind farm is associated to a water desalination plant, while the University of La Laguna is developing a biofuel production project using jatropha curas seeds.
The water company has agreed to buy 75 GWh of this output to run Beckton sewage works, which serves 3.5 million people, and the nearby desalination plant, operated in times of drought or other emergencies.
By raising taxes, it will help to pay to develop alternative sources of water recycling wastewater, building the world's largest desalination plant to supply an extra 85m gallons (13.5m cubic metres) a day to the region by 2007.
While low flow fixtures, rainfall collection, and solar panels help to conserve water and energy, the desalination plant and wind farm that were part of the original plan are the kinds of large-scale facilities that would make this community truly stand out as a worldwide front-runner in sustainability.
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Poseidon wants to build its desalination project adjacent to this power plant, a plant that cools its generators by piping in seawater from half a mile out at sea.
This plant is a small-scale model of two desalination plants Poseidon is proposing, one for Carlsbad and another for Huntington Beach.
Existing membranes cater to the desalination industry and haven't combined the two essential features needed for an osmotic power plant, said Skilhagen.
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