Desalintion technology - How to achieve sustainable food production for increased profit and well-being

Today, one out of three people don’t have access to safe drinking water. And that’s the result of many things, but one of them is that 96.5% of that water is found in our oceans. It’s saturated with salt, and undrinkable. Most of the freshwater is locked away in glaciers or deep underground. Less than one percent of it is available to us. So why can’t we just take all that seawater, filter out the salt, and have a nearly unlimited supply of clean, drinkable water?

Australia: Desalination plants are ‘the way of the future’ [11.12.2019]
NSW Water Minister Melinda Pavey says “desalination plants” are the “way of the future” in dealing with water shortages.SHOW MORE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIEM0tdvmEc

Australia – Plan to ramp up production at South Australia’s desalination plant [26.11.2019]
The Federal Government has offered $100 million to South Australia to ramp up production at its desalination plant, to make more water available to grow fodder for livestock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLsWZEDY6-g

F Cubed have developed and patented a unique solar desalination, purification technology called Carocell. Carocell solar desalinating/purification technology is the most efficient and cost effective product of its kind, producing pure, clean drinking water on any scale from any water source, using renewable solar energy, emitting zero carbon emissions and zero liquid discharge.

Australia: Solution to Sydney water demand is ‘dams, not desalination plants’ [11.08.2019]
Liberal MP Craig Kelly says Sydney will need more dams, not desalination plants, as the city’s population rises.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2psTrAjo6iE

Nuclear technology applied in seawater desalination [26.04.2019]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12LLyUIh0VY

Most of the Arabian Peninsula is desert, and the people who live there have always struggled to find fresh water. Now, the region relies on desalinated seawater for most of its needs – from drinking water to irrigation. But as Steff Gaulter report, the dozens of fresh-water factories across the Gulf have a high environmental cost

Tuas Desalination Plant, Singapore [28.06.2018]
Singapore’s future water security lies with desalination and reuse. These rainfall-independent sources of water will help to reduce our vulnerability to weather uncertainties. Tuas Desalination Plant, Singapore’s third desalination plant boost our desalination capacity up from 100mgd to 130mgd. Desalination can now meet up to 30% of Singapore’s current water demand. Watch this video to find out how we treat sea water into potable drinking water at Tuas Desalination Plant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxVT9NAjQhA

India: Ground Report – Desalination : सागर से बुझेगी प्यास | Desalination: Hope from Sea [16.06.2018]
Desalination plants in Chennai are very essential now for daily need of water for the city. 2 plants are functioning in Chennai coast. Both are of 100 MLD capacity.. 2 more are coming, and in next 3 years that would be able to provide 550 MLD. These plants are based on reverse osmosis technology. Rajya Sabha TV took the view in Ground report regarding feasibility of these plants in providing alternate source of water. Also NIOT developed technology of LTTD for desalination of water. The report also talks about high cost of electricity in RO based desalination plants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SIOFwBjsSk

UAE: Desert greening project (28.03.2018)

USA: Why Don’t We Just Use Desalination Of Ocean Water To Solve Our Water Shortage Problems? [12.01.2018]
In the middle of the Mojave Desert, Las Vegas casinos use billions of gallons of water for fountains, pirate lagoons, wave machines, and indoor canals. Meanwhile, the town of Orme, Tennessee, must truck in water from Alabama because it has literally run out. Robert Glennon captures the irony and tragedy of America’s water crisis that is both frightening and wickedly comical. From manufactured snow for tourists in Atlanta to trillions of gallons of water flushed down the toilet each year, Robert Glennon reveals the heady extravagances and everyday inefficiencies that are sucking the nation dry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MiDqX7NYSY

Solar-Powered Desalination System for Off-Grid Water Production in India and Gaza [21.07.2017]
Natasha Wright has been asking questions ever since, particularly about water quality. Much of her research and inventive work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has focused on improving drinking-water quality and better understanding household water-usage habits in rural India and other areas. She travels to India three times each year to learn more about local water supplies and to complete field trials of her technology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbbS8ejPXhI

India: Chennai Seawater Desalination Plant [22.05.2017]
Chennai Seawater Desalination Plant is the first seawater desalination plant in India.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JDQO9o9lWA

Desalination to secure water supplies: A problematic solution? [14.04.2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=Vxzs-2l1Xtc&feature=emb_logo

Israel: The World’s Largest Reverse Osmosis Desalination Plant [25.10.2016]
How does Israel meet 80% of its domestic water needs from desalination? Eylon Aslan-Levy goes undercover at the largest reverse osmosis desalination plant in the world — Sorek, Israel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8XHuT1tcX0

Israel: The Impact of Desalination [14.08.2016]
How desalination has transformed Israel’s water supply in just a few short years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV61kRPBWOU

Making Desalination More Sustainable [7.06.2016]
In a world of dwindling freshwater supply, how can we meet the demands of a growing population? This video explains a new hybrid process which can double the freshwater output of traditional thermally-driven desalination without requiring additional energy. Developed by the King Abdullah Foundation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZenuOGTohk

USA: 360 View of the Carlsbad Desalination Plant [31.05.2016]
Get a 360 view of IDE’s Carlsbad Desalination Plant, the largest desalination plant in the western hemisphere and a complete game changer for desalination in the US.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMVh7u0R3uc

Is desalination the future of drought relief in California? [31.10.2015]
San Diego is set to soon start supplying itself with millions of gallons a day of fresh, drinkable water, using saltwater from the Pacific Ocean, converted by a brand new desalination plant. As California’s historic drought continues, the plant will likely intensify the debate over the role of desalination may play in the state’s water supply. Special Correspondent Mike Taibbi reports.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Skuk8DeXpE

Oman: Sur Desalination Plant [31.08.2015]
The Sur Desalination Plant in the Sultanate of Oman produces 83,500 m³ of potable water each day for around 375,000 inhabitants of the Sharqiyah region. This video explains the 6-step RO desalination process in a simple and clear way adapted for schools.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcrtQbGIUuw

Al Khafji (Saudi Arabia) is the home for what’s already referred to as the largest desalination plant fully powered by renewable solar energy.

Israel is global leader in desalination technologies [25.05.2015]
For dry countries like Australia, Saudi Arabia and Israel, rainless winters mean water shortages for farmers and consumers…at least that’s what it used to mean. But desalination technologies are turning the world’s seawater into drinking water. In the realm of desalination, Israel is the global leader.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr0ReW8U2Ns

Algeria: Desalination Plant, Magtaa [16.06.2014]
El Magtaa desalination plant was until recently the world’s largest reverse osmosis desalination plant producing 500K cubic meters of drinking water / day. It is built and operated by Singapore’s Hyflux. The Plant is located in western Algeria near Arzew (Mers El Hadjadj)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHP8i4Yuahk

Solution: Hitachi solar-powered desalination plants, Abu Dhabi – Hitachi [20.05.2014]
Green energy is a must in Abu Dhabi and it was a requirement of the project to power the desalination plants using solar energy. There is no lack of sunlight in Abu Dhabi and solar power overcomes the usually high cost of energy for operating the plant, but importantly it has no environmental impact.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgXPooc7KmI

Meerwasserentsalzung – Desalination – IdeenPark – Claus Mertes [6.12.2012]
Weltweit kleinste MED TVC Entsalzungsanlage. Wie funktioniert diese thermische Entsalzungsanlage.
World smallest desalination MED TVC plant. How does this thermal plant work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evPRfiMS2V0

A new approach to water desalination [2.07.2012]
The availability of fresh water is dwindling in many parts of the world, a problem that is expected to grow with populations. One promising source of potable water is the world’s virtually limitless supply of seawater, but so far desalination technology has been too expensive for widespread use. Now, MIT researchers have come up with a new approach using a different kind of filtration material: sheets of graphene, a one-atom-thick form of the element carbon, which they say can be far more efficient and possibly less expensive than existing desalination systems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5Tjy_90WBU

Desalination Myths and Misconceptions [7.06.2011]
Produced by the International Desalination Association, this video addresses the cost, energy and environmental mitigation measures employed on modern seawater desalination plants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJbqafB4POA

Desalination (also called “desalinization” and “desalting”) is the process of removing dissolved salts from water, thus producing fresh water from seawater or brackish water. Desalting technologies can be used for many applications. The most prevalent use is to produce potable water from saline water for domestic or municipal purposes.