Items Tagged with 'desalination'

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. 

With the successful completion of the $1-billion seawater desalination plant in Carlsbad, Calif., the project’s developer is moving forward with plans to build a second plant at Huntington Beach.

Jordan and Israel are moving forward with the first phase of their ambitious Red-to-Dead Sea project to build jointly new pilot-scale facilities to boost the water supply to both countries and replenish the severely depleted Dead Sea, which borders both nations

After years of drought-generated water shortages, Israel now is in the enviable position of having a surplus of supply thanks to massive investment in desalination and wastewater reuse over the past decade.