The project, proposed by California American Water, was given the go-ahead by the California Coastal Commission late Thursday, after a 13-hour hearing where many residents and speakers highlighted the cost and environmental risks. The plant, set to be located 80 miles southeast of San Francisco, would produce 4.8 million gallons of drinkable water per day.
On completion, the Yanbu-4 IWP will have 450,000 cu m per day capacity of fresh water to be supplied to households in Makkah and Madinah, said a statement from SWPC.
The facility also boasts tanks with a capacity of 900,000 cu m and a 42-km-long desalinated water transmission line to transport more than 600,000 cu m per day, it stated.
The plant will include solar energy units generating 20 MW of power to reduce grid electricity consumption throughout the desalination process, as well as water storage tanks designed to maintain a capacity […]
Saudi Arabia plans to produce 100 percent of the electric power required to desalinate seawater for the eco-friendly future new city with renewable energy.
The key issue is whether green energy can be stably produced to supply drinking water to Neom City. Industry insiders expect that Saudi Arabia will use nuclear power rather than solar or wind power for the desalination projects to ensure a stable supply of power to multiple desalination plants. Analysts say that Doosan Enerbility will become the biggest beneficiary in this regard
This remarkable desalination device, made from 170,000 recycled plastic bottles, runs on mechanical power from waves as it floats in the ocean, and creates up to 13,000 gallons (53,000 liters) of fresh water a day – while discharging far less concentrated salty brine than other designs.
California American Water, the nation’s largest publicly traded water and wastewater company, plans to build the plant to pump ocean water, desalinate it and provide drinking water to 100,000 people on the Monterey Peninsula. The largely Latino, agricultural community of Castroville would also receive the water at a discount.
The plant would produce about 4.8 million gallons of water per day when it begins operating, with the possibility of increasing production later. California American Water hopes to have it operating by the end of 2027. The water company is seeking to bolster […]
The Birkat Miriam plant will produce 100 million cubic meters of desalinated water annually, improving the reliability of Israel’s water supply to Haifa, the Western Galilee and Upper Galilee regions.
Birkat Miriam will join Israel’s other large scale desalination plants in operation – Ashkelon, Ashdod, Palmachim, Hadera and Sorek 1 – while IDE also constructs Sorek 2. These desalination plants are part of an Israeli government effort to increase the amount of desalinated water in the country’s overall water resources. The water contribution from the Western Galilee plant will bring total production of desalination plants […]
An irrigation community has built a 786 kW floating solar array on a small water reservoir in Murcia, Spain. The facility will provide power for a solar water pumping system, a desalination unit, and the community itself.
Comunidad de Regantes de Águilas, a Spanish irrigation community, recently completed the installation of a floating PV plant on one of its irrigation ponds in the municipality of Águilas, in the southern Spanish region of Murcia.
Anglo American (LON: AAL) secured on Wednesday a supply agreement to meet almost half the water requirements of its Los Bronces copper mine in Chile with desalinated water from 2025.
The deal with Aguas Pacifico will allow the miner to bring ocean water to Los Bronces’ recirculation systems, with the goal of not drawing fresh water from the area where the mine is located.
In this first phase, the company will use 500 litres per second of desalinated water to cover 45% of […]
Die Vereinten Nationen definieren Wasserknappheit als einen für den menschlichen Bedarf nicht ausreichenden Zugang zu Trinkwasser auf Grund mangelhafter Infrastruktur. Die Weltgesundheitsorganisation WHO gibt an, dass in Zeiten von Krisen ein Mensch täglich je nach Klimazone und Ernährung zwischen 7,5 und 15 Liter Trink- und Süßwasser benötige, zum Trinken und für Minimalhygiene. Fast die Hälfte der Welt lebt bereits in von Wasserknappheit gefährdeten Regionen, und diese Zahl könnte sich bis 2050 auf zwischen 4,8 und 5,7 Milliarden Menschen erhöhen. Die UNO befürchtet, dass dies bis […]
IDE’s Western Galilee project to be Israel’s seventh-largest desalination plant, producing 100 million cubic meters of water annually.
The Western Galilee desalination plant, to be named Birkat Miriam, will join Israel’s other large scale desalination plants in operation — Ashkelon, Ashdod, Palmachim, Hadera and Sorek 1 — while IDE also constructs Sorek 2. These desalination plants are part of a government effort to increase the amount of desalinated water in the country’s overall water resources. The water contribution from the Western Galilee plant will bring total production of desalination plants in Israel to almost […]