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desalinationor desaltingRemoval of dissolved salts from seawater and from the salty waters of inland seas, highly mineralized groundwaters, and municipal wastewaters. Desalination makes such otherwise unusable waters fit for human consumption, irrigation, industrial applications, and other purposes. Distillation is the most widely used desalination process; freezing and thawing, electrodialysis, and reverse osmosis are also used. All are energy-intensive and therefore expensive. Currently, more than 2 billion gallons (8 million cu m) of fresh water are produced each day by several thousand desalination plants throughout the world, the largest plants being in the Arabian Peninsula. desalting [dē′sȯl·tiŋ] (chemical engineering) The process of extracting inorganic salts from oil. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Now let's all of us call our councilmen and tell them to get going, on a bond sale and planning for a garbage-to-energy facility and use it to desalt the ocean, so we can have water here in the future. At that defunct Santa Barbara desalination plant, it cost roughly $2,000 per acre-foot to desalt seawater, while traditional water sources from the MWD ran about $350 per acre-foot. The Calleguas project calls for construction of two wells, a treatment plant in Tapo Canyon and associated pipelines that will pump and desalt brackish groundwater from a Simi Valley basin and deliver up to 1,455 acre-feet of potable water a year for use in the city. |
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