Israel Proves the Desalination Era Is Here: One of the driest countries on Earth now makes more freshwater than it needs

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California is run by luddites who chose water shortages over desalination.

And yes, I used the word "chose."

To use or not use technology to solve problems is a choice.

There have been many proposals to build large-scale desalination plants in Califonia. Except for the one in Carlsbad, all of the recent proposals have been rejected. And even the Carlsbad one took way too long to get approval.


Israel Proves the Desalination Era Is Here: One of the driest countries on Earth now makes more freshwater than it needs

By Rowan Jacobsen

July 29, 2016

Ten miles south of Tel Aviv, I stand on a catwalk over two concrete reservoirs the size of football fields and watch water pour into them from a massive pipe emerging from the sand. The pipe is so large I could walk through it standing upright, were it not full of Mediterranean seawater pumped from an intake a mile offshore.

“Now, that’s a pump!” Edo Bar-Zeev shouts to me over the din of the motors, grinning with undisguised awe at the scene before us. The reservoirs beneath us contain several feet of sand through which the seawater filters before making its way to a vast metal hangar, where it is transformed into enough drinking water to supply 1.5 million people.

We are standing above the new Sorek desalination plant, the largest reverse-osmosis desal facility in the world, and we are staring at Israel’s salvation. Just a few years ago, in the depths of its worst drought in at least 900 years, Israel was running out of water. Now it has a surplus. That remarkable turnaround was accomplished through national campaigns to conserve and reuse Israel’s meager water resources, but the biggest impact came from a new wave of desalination plants.

Bar-Zeev, who recently joined Israel’s Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research after completing his postdoc work at Yale University, is an expert on biofouling, which has always been an Achilles’ heel of desalination and one of the reasons it has been considered a last resort. Desal works by pushing saltwater into membranes containing microscopic pores. The water gets through, while the larger salt molecules are left behind. But microorganisms in seawater quickly colonize the membranes and block the pores, and controlling them requires periodic costly and chemical-intensive cleaning. But Bar-Zeev and colleagues developed a chemical-free system using porous lava stone to capture the microorganisms before they reach the membranes. It’s just one of many breakthroughs in membrane technology that have made desalination much more efficient. Israel now gets 55 percent of its domestic water from desalination, and that has helped to turn one of the world’s driest countries into the unlikeliest of water giants.
 
California is run by luddites who chose water shortages over desalination.

And yes, I used the word "chose."

To use or not use technology to solve problems is a choice.

There have been many proposals to build large-scale desalination plants in Califonia. Except for the one in Carlsbad, all of the recent proposals have been rejected. And even the Carlsbad one took way too long to get approval.


Israel Proves the Desalination Era Is Here: One of the driest countries on Earth now makes more freshwater than it needs

By Rowan Jacobsen

July 29, 2016

Ten miles south of Tel Aviv, I stand on a catwalk over two concrete reservoirs the size of football fields and watch water pour into them from a massive pipe emerging from the sand. The pipe is so large I could walk through it standing upright, were it not full of Mediterranean seawater pumped from an intake a mile offshore.

“Now, that’s a pump!” Edo Bar-Zeev shouts to me over the din of the motors, grinning with undisguised awe at the scene before us. The reservoirs beneath us contain several feet of sand through which the seawater filters before making its way to a vast metal hangar, where it is transformed into enough drinking water to supply 1.5 million people.

We are standing above the new Sorek desalination plant, the largest reverse-osmosis desal facility in the world, and we are staring at Israel’s salvation. Just a few years ago, in the depths of its worst drought in at least 900 years, Israel was running out of water. Now it has a surplus. That remarkable turnaround was accomplished through national campaigns to conserve and reuse Israel’s meager water resources, but the biggest impact came from a new wave of desalination plants.

Bar-Zeev, who recently joined Israel’s Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research after completing his postdoc work at Yale University, is an expert on biofouling, which has always been an Achilles’ heel of desalination and one of the reasons it has been considered a last resort. Desal works by pushing saltwater into membranes containing microscopic pores. The water gets through, while the larger salt molecules are left behind. But microorganisms in seawater quickly colonize the membranes and block the pores, and controlling them requires periodic costly and chemical-intensive cleaning. But Bar-Zeev and colleagues developed a chemical-free system using porous lava stone to capture the microorganisms before they reach the membranes. It’s just one of many breakthroughs in membrane technology that have made desalination much more efficient. Israel now gets 55 percent of its domestic water from desalination, and that has helped to turn one of the world’s driest countries into the unlikeliest of water giants.
The UAE and Saudi Arabia have been using solar powered desalination plants for decades. CA democrats are dumber than the sand that the live on.
 
California is run by luddites who chose water shortages over desalination.

And yes, I used the word "chose."

To use or not use technology to solve problems is a choice.

There have been many proposals to build large-scale desalination plants in Califonia. Except for the one in Carlsbad, all of the recent proposals have been rejected. And even the Carlsbad one took way too long to get approval.


Israel Proves the Desalination Era Is Here: One of the driest countries on Earth now makes more freshwater than it needs

By Rowan Jacobsen

July 29, 2016

Ten miles south of Tel Aviv, I stand on a catwalk over two concrete reservoirs the size of football fields and watch water pour into them from a massive pipe emerging from the sand. The pipe is so large I could walk through it standing upright, were it not full of Mediterranean seawater pumped from an intake a mile offshore.

“Now, that’s a pump!” Edo Bar-Zeev shouts to me over the din of the motors, grinning with undisguised awe at the scene before us. The reservoirs beneath us contain several feet of sand through which the seawater filters before making its way to a vast metal hangar, where it is transformed into enough drinking water to supply 1.5 million people.

We are standing above the new Sorek desalination plant, the largest reverse-osmosis desal facility in the world, and we are staring at Israel’s salvation. Just a few years ago, in the depths of its worst drought in at least 900 years, Israel was running out of water. Now it has a surplus. That remarkable turnaround was accomplished through national campaigns to conserve and reuse Israel’s meager water resources, but the biggest impact came from a new wave of desalination plants.

Bar-Zeev, who recently joined Israel’s Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research after completing his postdoc work at Yale University, is an expert on biofouling, which has always been an Achilles’ heel of desalination and one of the reasons it has been considered a last resort. Desal works by pushing saltwater into membranes containing microscopic pores. The water gets through, while the larger salt molecules are left behind. But microorganisms in seawater quickly colonize the membranes and block the pores, and controlling them requires periodic costly and chemical-intensive cleaning. But Bar-Zeev and colleagues developed a chemical-free system using porous lava stone to capture the microorganisms before they reach the membranes. It’s just one of many breakthroughs in membrane technology that have made desalination much more efficient. Israel now gets 55 percent of its domestic water from desalination, and that has helped to turn one of the world’s driest countries into the unlikeliest of water giants.
It's heavily government subsidized and they still charge $150 a month on average for residential water.

That's about twice the price on average in CA, and that's some of the most expensive water in the nation.
 
It's heavily government subsidized and they still charge $150 a month on average for residential water.

That's about twice the price on average in CA, and that's some of the most expensive water in the nation.
But they have enough to put out fires.
 
Thank You Thank YOU!!!

Desal does work. It isn't cheap, but it does provide WATER...

The Israelis do what is in their best interests.

We ought to notice.

BTW a "kosher steak" is also really good... which is why they eat it.


Funny, because 25 years ago in California it was Democrat Jews arguing AGAINST desalination.


Israel - closed border, defends border, uses desal

America = open border, doesn't defend border, Jewish "leaders" shun desal FOR AMERICA.... but NOT ISRAEL...


HELLO!!!
 
It's heavily government subsidized and they still charge $150 a month on average for residential water.

That's about twice the price on average in CA, and that's some of the most expensive water in the nation.
If dems in california do not want to pay for water then they wont have water
 
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