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Israel Bringing Its Years Of Desalination Experience To California
NPR ^ | June 14, 2015 | Emily Harris

Posted on 06/17/2015 11:27:11 AM PDT by SJackson

Taking the salt out of seawater helped Israel move from the constant threat of drought to a plentiful supply of water, but Israel has learned that desalination is not the only answer.

Ben-Gurion University's Institute for Water Research is deep in Israel's Negev desert and away from the sea. Prof. Jack Gilron, head of the Department of Desalination and Water Treatment, and other researchers here test concepts in desalination to see if they might hold promise for industrial development.

Israel has long sought solutions to the threat of drought. Commercial desalination began in the 1970s in the city of Eilat, on the Red Sea. The first desalination technology used there, in a short-lived pilot project, froze water to remove the salt, then melted it to make fresh water.

But Israel seriously embraced desalination in the late 1990s, after a particularly bad drought. The government decided to build five new plants along the Mediterranean, as fast as it could.

With four of those up and running and the fifth about to open, more than one-quarter of Israel's fresh water is now created through desalination.

An Israeli company is building a desalination plant near San Diego, to aid in California's historic drought.

(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...


TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: california; desalination; desalinationplants; drought; israel; water
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1 posted on 06/17/2015 11:27:11 AM PDT by SJackson
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume

If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.

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Needs boycotting.

2 posted on 06/17/2015 11:28:18 AM PDT by SJackson (an emotional nation, not a rational nation. You work from your gut and not your mind, BHO on Israel)
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To: SJackson

What are they going to do with the salt?

Dumping it back in the ocean will probably result in arrests.


3 posted on 06/17/2015 11:30:25 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Steely Tom

Wait til the accusations that the Jews are just doing this to extract the gold from the seawater.


4 posted on 06/17/2015 11:33:16 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder
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To: SJackson

This is just taking good money from our bullet train project.


5 posted on 06/17/2015 11:36:21 AM PDT by umgud (When under attack, victims want 2 things; God & a gun)
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To: Steely Tom

Shelf it next to trans fats...


6 posted on 06/17/2015 11:44:43 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: umgud

Too funny.

Socialists start with the train crap at an early age.

I remember my older brother pushing trains when he was only 10 years old. It’s a control thing, hearding people like cattle and confining them to a box.


7 posted on 06/17/2015 11:47:57 AM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: SJackson
 
 
As if any such plant would ever get built - enviro nazis would be filing lawsuits on behalf of some "endangered" critter or another.
 
 

8 posted on 06/17/2015 11:50:08 AM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: SJackson

Must be tough for NPR having to report on ‘jew-tech’.


9 posted on 06/17/2015 11:55:38 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Steely Tom
What are they going to do with the salt?

Have you priced coarse Kosher salt lately?

10 posted on 06/17/2015 11:58:06 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & Ifwater the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: lapsus calami

the desal plant is being build in san diego county outside of carlsbad


11 posted on 06/17/2015 12:17:21 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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12 posted on 06/17/2015 12:18:55 PM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: SJackson
Desalinization, however, requires a LOT of electric power to make it viable. Maybe it's time to perfect the molten salt reactor technology so we could build desalinization plants that could make billions of gallons of potable water easily from seawater.
13 posted on 06/17/2015 12:20:17 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: markman46
 
 
Seriously?? What the heck - the nazis are falling down on the job over there. Maybe they're waiting for the union contracts to get fulfilled enough before they try to block it from going into operation. Stranger things have happened.
 
 

14 posted on 06/17/2015 12:21:55 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: SJackson

Will the BDS leftists boycott water in California? (Please say “yes”)


15 posted on 06/17/2015 12:27:58 PM PDT by captain_dave
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To: RayChuang88

“molten salt reactor”

Dingdingdingdingdingding!!!

THE WINNER!!!!

Yup, Thorium LFTR Plants every 250 miles just back away from the coast would do nicely. They’d have power and fresh water in the bargain. Even if all the water went to Ag use, it would free up water for residential.


16 posted on 06/17/2015 12:29:59 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: captain_dave

California needs these plants a lot more than it needs a $68 billion dollar speed train to nowhere.

But which will it buy?


17 posted on 06/17/2015 12:33:39 PM PDT by CondorFlight (I)
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To: JimRed

Better yet, kosher or not, it’s SEA salt. Very salable.


18 posted on 06/17/2015 12:35:18 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: Steely Tom

You KNOW that some enviroleftist will find something wrong with desalinating sea water for human use...


19 posted on 06/17/2015 12:35:20 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: SJackson

Why not take a look at the seawater desalination plant near Jubail, Saudi Arabia. There is an entire village built around the facilities just to support its large (Italian) staff. The plant has been on-stream since the late 1970’s Desalinated water is sent to Saudi interior through 6’ diameter concrete pipelines.
Also take a look at the Abu Dhabi facilities where the water is used to irrigate their golf courses in the middle of the desert. Seawater desalination is away of life in the M.E.


20 posted on 06/17/2015 12:41:55 PM PDT by 353FMG (muzzies are a national security liability.)
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