China boasts continuous growth in sea water desalination capacity – China – Hangzhou
Chinaâs sea water desalination capacity has grown for three straight years, with 158 sets of equipment installed as of the end of 2016.
The daily desalination capacity exceeded 1.38 million cubic meters, according to figures made public at a forum on water pollution control and ecological protection that ended Monday in Hangzhou, capital of east Chinaâs Zhejiang Province. Nearly 70 percent of Chinaâs desalinated sea water was for industrial use as of the end of last year. In northern Chinaâs Liaoning, Hebei and Tianjin regions, desalinated water mainly supplies the hydropower, steel and chemical industries. In southern Chinaâs Zhejiang and Guangdong [âŠ]