Dubai's giant saltwater desalination plant

Jebel Ali plant has the ability to convert seawater into clean water to meet the use needs of the people of Dubai city.

Dubai is one of the fastest growing cities in the world, and is a place with a very dry climate, according to Popular Science.The population boom in Dubai has caused groundwater resources to be exhausted, now only providing 0.5% of the city's needs.

To produce clean water that meets 99.5% of the remaining demand (about 1.6 billion liters of clean water), the city government has built Jebel Ali, a seawater desalination plant in the middle of the Persian Gulf. and Arab desert, capable of handling 10.6 billion liters of seawater every day.

The Jebel Ali plant applies reverse osmosis technology , injecting seawater through filters for desalination.This membrane system produces about 11.3 million liters of water per day.

The rest of the seawater (about 98.5%) passing through the heating and cooling system is called rapid distillation.Turbines transport steam in pipes to a series of steam chambers and condense into clean water.

Dubai Water and Energy Agency (DEWA) checks the pH, turbidity and chlorine dioxide of water generated before transporting to reservoirs and 666,430 customers in the city.

Only about 9% of the seawater input will become drinking water.The remaining seawater with higher salinity is pumped back to the Persian Gulf.Workers at the Jebel Ali plant regularly check the acidity of the water and the status of marine species, to ensure warm saline released from the factory does not harm the ecosystem.