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Sun, Sand And Water: Solar-Powered Desalination Plant Will Help Supply Saudi Arabia With Fresh Water

September 13, 2021
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“Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink,” lamented a thirsty sailor in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s epic 18th-century poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” Fortunately, humanity has since discovered ways of making seawater potable. Take the water-scarce nation of Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest producer of desalinated water.

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A Glass Half Full: These Water Treatment Technologies Are So Powerful They Can Fight Drought in the Desert

April 07, 2015
Water scarcity has again become a hot topic as California and Texas lurch into their fourth year of drought and Brazil’s Sao Paulo may start rationing water in 2015. But in some parts of the world the lack of water has been a problem for as long as anyone can remember.
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Giving Wastewater a Second Chance

March 24, 2015
To many of us, access to clean water is a given. This however, is not the case for a significant number of people around the world. The booming industrial growth across the globe has also caused water to become a strategic resource1. Here are some quick facts:

The world’s population is expectedto increase from 7 billion in 2014 to 9 billion in 20502

  • 97% of water on our Earth is saline water in oceans; only 3% can be counted as freshwater3


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    Sun-Powered Desalination for Villages in India

    Mit News
    October 03, 2014

    Off-grid Indian communities with salty groundwater could get potable water through a proposed solar technique.

    Around the world, there is more salty groundwater than fresh, drinkable groundwater. For example, 60 percent of India is underlain by salty water — and much of that area is not served by an electric grid that could run conventional reverse-osmosis desalination plants.

     
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    Water Scarcity – Innovating Solutions for the Future

    June 18, 2014
    AS: The first ones were used for the industrial market. Our customers were paper mills and steel mills like Jones and Laughlin Steel Company in Pittsburgh, Youngstown Sheet and Tube in Ohio, and McLouth Steel in Michigan. They were the first customers ever to have a control system for a hot strip mill.
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    Better Water Through Science—Open Innovation’s Hunt for Freshwater

    Dr Rashid Khan Aramco Entrepreneurship
    April 18, 2014
    New processes and technologies, developed through an open innovation platform, could springboard desalination from the margin to the mainstream of a global strategy to combat water scarcity.
    Helping to accelerate the hunt for those breakthroughs is a new $200,000 incentive in the form of an open innovation challenge.
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    Soak The Casbah: GE Technology Brings Fresh Water to Millions in Algiers

    February 23, 2013

    Water barrels and storage tanks had for years dominated roofs in the Casbah and other neighborhoods spread over the crescent of hills ringing the Algerian capital and the blue half-moon of Bay of Algiers. “There was a big water shortage in this country,” says Ali Nouioua, a GE Power & Water manager based in Algeria. “Some areas would lose water every two or three days. People would have to buy it from water tankers on the street and store it on the roof.”

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