Posted on 08/02/2016 12:27:46 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
July 19, 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....
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1.5 million? That’s staggering.
Israel rocks. I hope hey sell water to CA for 10 bucks a gallon. :)
Oh wait, I forgot. The dreaded end of the world because of global warming drought ended, didn’t it.
Add to this the 3D printed nano-technology membranes the Koreans are developing and RO will become even more economical.
Meanwhile, at the end of the pipe in the Med. are three thousand small outboards sporting a black flag, checking the water current into the pipe, Chem filters on their faces, pouring chemicals overboard, yelling Allah Akbar!
” pouring chemicals overboard, yelling Allah Akbar!”
If the membranes will filter out dissolved salt they’ll filter out other things too.
Cali is a leader of the anti-Israel movement and will not avail itself of Israeli technology with the exception of cell phones of course.
They would be killing their own as many muzzies in Israel drink the same water...the osmosis process takes out the poisons any way!
Not all the news in the world is bad.
This type of technology is simply amazing.
I am pretty sure the water is treated after going through the membrane.
Anyway, when we are discussing millions of cubic feet of water you would need a lot of chemicals.
Ping
Is this the same technology, albeit on a much larger scale, that we’ve used at Gitmo since the ‘60s?
I thought Santa Barbara was building their own plant?
Actually it is the membrane which removes all impurities from the water.
The result is pure water, no bacteria, no viruses, no chemicals, nothing but H2O.
Yep and they’re going to charge Santa Barbara prices.
That is so cool.
There have been desalination plants and technology used in UAE since the 80’s. Not exactly new just expensive.
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