The district study estimated the project could cost $122 million to nearly $194 million to construct and produce about 5,325 acre-feet of water per year for the district at a cost of $1,800 to $2,900 per acre-foot.
The low-interest loan is intended to help the plant’s owner, Poseidon Resources, satisfy state regulations for protecting fish and other marine life at the Claude “Bud” Lewis plant. The money, awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is estimated to save ratepayers about $54 million.
The Carlsbad Desalination Plant is touted as the “largest, most technologically advanced and energy-efficient desalination plant in the nation,” and has produced more than 100 billion gallons of drinking water for San Diego County since operations began in December 2015, officials said.
The desalination plant in Carlsbad will receive $170 million in federal financing to upgrade its facility and meet environmental requirements, officials announced this week.
Velasco was referring to a recently concluded bidding and award between the Marinduque Water District and the Pasig City-based Peak Off-Grid Innovations and Solutions for the establishment of modern facilities designed to deliver some 29,200 cubic meters of drinkable water daily to meet the islanders’ demand for personal, household, and irrigation purposes.
The project is a part of Egyptian government’s strategy to increase the country’s desalinated water supply by 8.8 million cubic meters of water daily by 2050.
The process is energy-intensive and expensive, and it has a large environmental footprint. It produces greenhouse gases as well as concentrated salts, known as brine, which are pumped back into the oceans and are detrimental to the marine environment. For every litre of water produced, the process creates about 1.5 litres of brine. These factors limit the expansion of desalination and its ability to keep up with the rising demand for potable water in Gulf countries including the UAE.
Mr Harris said the two plants planned for Cornwall’s south coast would provide about 60 megalitres – or 60 million litres – a day.
Cornwall uses about 170 megalitres a day, meaning more than a third of its water could come from desalination if the plants go ahead.
Currently the desalination plants, each of which provides at least 100,000 litres of potable water everyday, are powered by diesel generator sets — there being no other source of power in the islands. LTTD exploits the difference in temperature (nearly 15°C) in ocean water at the surface and at depths of about 600 feet. This cold water condenses water at the surface, that is warmer but whose pressure has been lowered using vacuum pumps. Such de-pressurised water can evaporate even at ambient temperatures and this resulting vapour when condensed is free of salts and contaminants and fit to […]
During the “Kapihan sa PIA” organized by the Public Information Agency in Central Visayas Wednesday, March 15, 2023, John Macabinta, Corporate Planning Department acting manager of the government-owned and -controlled utility provider, said 70 percent of the water supply sourced by MCWD comes from below the ground, while the rest comes from surface waters like rivers and reservoirs.