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.

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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.

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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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At the same time, South East Water is planning to pilot a small desalination plant in Newhaven, East Sussex.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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