Seawater Desalination is fast becoming one of the world’s solutions to a lack of fresh water in many countries around the world saving lives and making life easier for many in need. It is also an important step in slowing down rising sea levels as we remove water from the oceans. It is a small step as the sea levels rise with global warming, but every little bit helps as coastal erosion and flooding loom.
One of the main benefits of desalinating water is that is also cleaned at the same time, so users can drink water free of bacteria, viruses, and other contaminants.
Seawater Desalination defined. Geothermal Desalination defined. (Wikipedia)
The future of desalination is going to involve magnets as seen in this video link
There have been great strides in the field of desalination in the past few years. We now have plants that float on water and are powered by wind and solar energy. There are also ships that have desalination systems on boards which is most convenient when bringing water to areas that need it most. Many young inventors are coming up with simple residential methods to desalinate water on a small scale powered by renewable energy.
We’ll keep growing our list of resources pertaining to this vital industry in hopes that the world will get properly and more evenly hydrated while helping to reduce rising sea levels. Let’s use the seawater for good purposes before rising sea levels wreak havoc on shoreline communities.
‘SAWaterCorp’ produced this video that reviews their Desalination Plant in Australia
DVSMarketing Video: How seawater desalination takes place through osmosis and reverse osmosis
FB – International-Desalination-Association
FB – Desalination is our Salvation
International Desalination Association: A UN-recognized non-profit organization working across the globe to promote water for all, in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goal #6.
Inceptive Mind: World’s first solar-powered project to extract drinking water from thin air
Inceptive Mind: Engineers develop a simple way to desalinate water using solar energy
Inceptive Mind: Suns River Still uses sunlight to pull pure water from seawater
Inceptive Mind: Henry Glogau’s Solar Desalination Skylight provides free lighting and drinking water
Desalination Plants around the world listed by country
DVSMarketing: Video: Explaining how seawater desalination takes place through osmosis and reverse osmosis.
Unfiltered Shows: Asking the public what they know about Desalination
Engineering Update: Pushing the Boundaries of Desalination Efficiency
Masdar Institute: Pulling Salt Out of Seawater with Magnets
Inceptive Mind: Solar desalination system turns seawater into cheap drinking water
USGS article on Desalination including using reverse osmosis
The Good News Network: A simple way a New Zealand designer created to desalinize water
Solarwaterpic.com/Our Solution/the-technology
Waterworld.com/-Canadian clear water-fzc-installs-Desalination-Plants-in-Egypt-Iraq-Oman
Greentechmedia.com/Oh-Canada-land-of-water-innovation
PV Magazine – Saltwater flow battery for water desalination applications – Infinity Turbine has developed a new system that uses the electricity stored in a saltwater redox flow battery to produce clean drinking water from seawater. It said the technology can be used by cruise ships and cargo ships.
Engineering Update: Pushing the Boundaries of Desalination Efficiency
Interesting Engineering: New desalination system produces drinking water at a high rate