Tag: Desalination - Page 2
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Researchers Develop Chlorine-Tolerant Membrane for Easy Desalination
Record droughts, falling water tables and the rapid depletion of aquifers have helped make desalination, a process once considered impractical and too expensive, a viable technology -- at least in some places. As such, there has been a rash of stories --
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Tampa Bay Florida Area Drinks Oil-Fired Water
There isn't much choice, as groundwater reserves are insufficient. But really...is bottled water any worse than this? Four years behind schedule and nearly $80 million over the original budget, the nation's largest sea water desalination facility
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Ecocities of Tomorrow: Can Foster + Partners' Masdar City in U.A.E be Truly Sustainable?
With over a third of the world's cranes hard at work building artificial islands, an underwater hotel, and the world's tallest building, biggest mall and most expensive airport, the United Arab Emirates has now turned it attention to building the
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Water on the Brain. We're Learning. Slowly.
Residents of the driest inhabited continent, Australia, have evidently been cottoning onto the fact that water means life and we need to be more thoughtful in our use of this rather precious resource. Since the year 2000, Australians have managed to
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Border Region Looks to Desalination to Counter a Parched Rio Grande
We´ve noted in the past plans for new desalination plants in Australia and low-grade energy desalination technology from New Mexico.
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Ambitious Solar Plan Could Provide EU with a Sixth of its Energy Needs
An ambitious scheme to build a number of solar power stations along the Mediterranean shores of the Middle East and northern Africa could generate enough electricity to supply one sixth of the European Union's needs. The generators, individually fitted
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Participate! Runner-Up: Hydrasol
Last week, we revealed the winner for our Participate! contest, Vinay Gupta's Hexayurt Project. This week, we are profiling two more great entries, the Participate! runners-up. Yesterday, we showed you easy to assemble, 100 percent recycled plastic
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UK Desalination Plans Attacked
The UK government has approved a new scheme for desalination of water from the Thames, for use in London. The £200 million plant will be built in Beckton, east London. It's not a popular plan, though, among environmental campaigners. We've written before
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Australia to Build Huge Desalination Plant
Southern Australia has been in the grip of serious drought; reservoirs are drying out, and water restrictions are in place. The government has planned a $4 billion project to provide more drinking water, including a huge desalination plant that is
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Low Temp Desalination Technology From New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute
This low-energy input "desalinization" system design is quite clever. "A prototype built on the NMSU campus in Las Cruces [New Mexico] can produce enough pure water continuously to supply a four-person household, said Nirmala Khandan, an environmental
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SeaPower Promises Emission-Free Power and Water
Perth, Western Australia, as we’ve noted before, is considered the most remote city on the planet. And one thing they are running out of, like much of drought declared Australia is fresh drinking water. Plans are in train to provide a chunk of this via
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Edinburgh Researcher Helping Ocean Desalinate Itself
If we need power to turn the ocean into tap water, why not let the ocean provide the energy? Stephen Salter at Edinburgh University is working toward that possibility his Edinburgh Duck, a wave powered desalination plant. The device would work by using
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Desalination: Now with Half the Energy
Turning salt water into fresh water is not the end solution to all water shortages or contamination. But as with all technologies, we can strive to make them more efficient for when they are needed. Eric Hoek and his team from UCLA have shown yet
