Desalination

Desalination or desalinization is a process that removes minerals from saline water. More generally, desalination may also refer to the removal of salts and minerals, as in soil desalination, which also happens to be a major issue for agricultural production.

Salt water is desalinated to produce fresh water suitable for human consumption or irrigation. One potential by-product of desalination is salt. Desalination is used on many seagoing ships and submarines. Most of the modern interest in desalination is focused on developing cost-effective ways of providing fresh water for human use. Along with recycled wastewater, this is one of the few rainfall-independent water sources.

Due to relatively high energy consumption, the costs of desalinating sea water are generally higher than the alternatives (fresh water from rivers or groundwater, water recycling and water conservation), but alternatives are not always available and rapid overdraw and depletion of reserves is a critical problem worldwide. Quoting Christopher Gasson of Global Water Intelligence, "At the moment, around 1% of the world's population are dependent on desalinated water to meet their daily needs, but by 2025, the UN expects 14% of the world's population to be encountering water scarcity. Unless people get radically better at water conservation, the desalination industry has a very strong future indeed."

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Cyprus to fund desalination plants at hotels to reduce impact of water shortages on tourism

The Associated Press 26 Mar 2025
Cyprus says it will make money available to subsidize construction of private desalination plants at hotels on the tourism-reliant island ...

Qatar meets 40% of total freshwater demand from desalination: Moody's

Gulf-Times 26 Mar 2025
... desalination technology ... It was built with an MSF (multi-stage flash) desalination unit with a capacity of 455MLD and with a SWRO plant with a capacity of 280MLD whose construction started in 2015.

Championing water resilience in Yemen through desalination efforts

YemenOnline 23 Mar 2025
With groundwater sources in critical decline and urban water systems under severe strain, desalination has emerged as a key avenue to address Yemen’s chronic water scarcity ... UNDP’s role in renewable energy-powered desalination.

Decarbonised desalination key pillar of UAE national strategy: Amna Al Dahak

Eye Of Riyadh 23 Mar 2025
Al Dahak also highlighted the country’s commitment to decarbonised desalination, prioritising Reverse Osmosis (RO) technology ... By 2030, the goal is to produce 90 percent of Abu Dhabi’s desalinated water through RO technology.

Desalination push but at what cost?

CyprusMail 23 Mar 2025
Efforts to mitigate the country’s water shortage are intensely focussed on the rapid acquisition of desalination plants, viewed as the most effective way to secure long term adequacy ... in desalination.

Webuild for World Water Day: 20 million people served daily by the Group’s desalination plants (Webuild SpA)

Public Technologies 22 Mar 2025
BY THE GROUP'S DESALINATION PLANTS ... Among the Group's most iconic projects are dam systems, aqueducts, desalination plants, water treatment facilities, and irrigation infrastructure, which transform communities and protect the environment.

InventHelp Inventor Develops New Type of Desalination System (FRO-580)

Victoria Advocate 21 Mar 2025
PITTSBURGH, March 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there could be a new type of water distillation system to purify water at both the consumer and utility level," said an inventor, from Bakersfield, Calif., "so I invented the DISTILATOR M ....

New desalination technology being tested in California could lower costs of tapping seawater

The Los Angeles Times 21 Mar 2025
Californians could be drinking water tapped from the Pacific Ocean off Malibu several years from now — that is, if a company's new desalination technology proves viable ... coastal desalination plants.

International Humanitarian and Philanthropic Council sponsors TV broadcast on UAE’s water desalination project in Gaza

Urdu Point 20 Mar 2025
... to clean water through advanced desalination methods and rapid distribution.</p><p>A total of six desalination plants have been established, producing two million gallons of water per day.

Companies demand premium rates for desalinated water as Cyprus faces critical shortage

Philenews 19 Mar 2025
Cyprus is taking steps to expand its desalination capacity in response to growing water scarcity concerns, with plans that could more than double current production capacity by 2026.

Second-largest desalination plant in Gaza shuts down

Middle East Monitor 18 Mar 2025
The second-largest seawater desalination plant in the Gaza Strip ceased operations today, just days after the largest plant in central Gaza was shut down,�Anadolu�reported.

IDE Water Technologies Pioneers Sustainable Desalination with Sorek 2 - Be’er Miriam

Business Wire 18 Mar 2025
Sorek 2, shortlisted for the 2025 Global Water Award for Desalination Plant of the Year, is als .
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