Desalination on Demand
ASEE Prism, Summer 2008
WATER TECHNOLOGY
A TEXAS-HEADQUARTERED company plans to build and operate ships that desalinate seawater and pump it to cities experiencing water shortages. The firm, Water Standard Co., says its vessels would be able to pump up to 75 million gallons a day and operate from as far as 5 miles offshore. According to the online publication IEEE Spectrum, the company claims several advantages over landbased plants: the ships can be dispatched to handle water crises that occur during natural disasters;they use less energy;and they wreak less havoc with marine life, since they don't need to suck in seawater as quickly.
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