water
Desalination
- "The basic process of desalination is not new. Salt water is pumped through filters under high pressure, squeezing out minerals. Israel and Kuwait have relied on desalination for decades, as have military vessels and cruise ships." ... "Since the late 1980s, the price of taking salt out of sea water has dropped from nearly $2,000 an acre-foot to $800 per acre-foot, said Walter Winrow, vice president of Poseidon Resources."
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- 20030114
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- "Calif.
Studies Making Sea Water Drinkable." ... "For the
most part, desalination has long been prohibitively expensive as a source
of drinking water in California. But rising demand, dwindling supply, and
new technology that makes it cheaper to take the salt out of sea water
are changing the economics of desalination."
-AP via -Guardian.co.uk - "... the thorniest obstacle is that reverse osmosis technology --the process of forcing water through a semi-permeable membrane that blocks out salt molecules -- is still very expensive." ... "Pushing water through the membranes takes a huge amount of electricity, which is why most desalination projects are being built alongside electric power generation plants." ... "Desalination has been a concept since the fourth century B.C., when Aristotle made his proposal to condense seawater vapor. The first crude plant was installed in 1862 in Key West, Fla., to support military personnel at Fort Zachary Taylor."
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- 20021230
- Desalination
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- "Marin
thirsty for desalination: Officials say tapping
bay could solve water woes." -By Peter Fimrite
-SFGate.com
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 <American Heritage> <Dictionary.com> desalinate, desalinize, desalt. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993 |
<desalination-[News]>
<desalt>
<desal>
<desalinate>
<desal plant>
<desalt the sea>
<brine>
<brine disposal>
<reverse osmosis membranes>
<reverse osmosis>