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desalinationRemoval of salt, usually from sea water, to produce fresh water for irrigation or drinking. Distillation has usually been the method adopted, but in the 1970s a cheaper process, using certain polymer materials that filter the molecules of salt from the water by reverse osmosis, was developed. Desalination plants have been built along the shores of Middle Eastern countries where fresh water is in short supply. |
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subsidiary Hydranautics ("ND/HY" collectively) have landed a contract to supply their "SWC5" high-performance reverse osmosis (RO) filtration membrane elements for a seawater desalination plant to be constructed on the Mediterranean coast in Algeria, north Africa, a country suffering from chronic water shortage. While the wave energy technology featured in your article on desalination in Australia ("Fresh Water from Down Under the Waves," Currents, March/April 2006) sounds like a forward-thinking solution for powering such operations, it is not a technology being considered here in the U. water purifier, won a desalination contract to treat 1. |
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