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Over the past two decades, the vesselโs hull has been excavated, disassembled, dissected, catalogued, desalted, bathed and freeze-dried for preservation.โ๐ Image William Booth, Washington Post, 11 June 2023 But desalination is also a significant water source for U.S. coastal areas, which produce 11.2 percent of the worldโs desalted H2O.
Back in the 1930s, the first desalters boiled seawater to capture freshwater as condensation.โ๐ Image Ula Chrobak, Popular Science, 30 Dec. 2019 However, the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea are so saline that desalting seawater may drive up electricity costs for reverse osmosis.โ๐ Image IEEE Spectrum, 20 Apr. 2018 This week, the city of Antioch celebrated its place among eight communities selected to receive a share of $44 million in state money for desalting projects.โ๐ Image Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2018 In the Bay Area, the Alameda County Water District has one such facility in Newark that has been desalting about 14,000 acre-feet of water annually since 2003 โ about 40 percent of the water supplied by the district.โ๐ Image Devika G. Bansal, The Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2017 Coastal cities are investing in desalination plants, but desalting technology is simply too expensive to use for agriculture.โ๐ Image Matthew Power, WIRED, 21 Apr. 2008
