Items Tagged with 'desalination'

With desalination in Spain an important strategy amid ongoing water shortages partially linked to climate change, a plant in Torrevieja—a coastal Mediterranean city in the country's southeast—plans to boost its output of desalinated water by 50%.

Construction under a progressive design-build contract is expected to begin next year.

A request for proposals for the plant, set to produce 30 million gallons of water per day, will be released July 8 to selected bidders.

Dubai plant will be the second-largest in the world using seawater reverse osmosis and the largest powered by solar energy.

The XPRIZE Foundation has announced a five-year effort to develop new approaches for sustainable seawater desalination to address global water scarcity. 

Adding a common type of thermally sensitive crystals could help extend the life of desalination plant membranes, according to new research.

The state Water Resources Control Board now seeks comment on just-released parameters to speed project permits. 

Plan calls for construction of a desalination plant on the Sea of Cortez in Mexico and a 200-mile pipeline to transport water to a reservoir west of Phoenix.

Huntington Beach proposal was too "problematic" to move forward, California Coastal commissioners said.