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How Singapore Solved Its Freshwater Shortage
Singapore, a country with no natural freshwater resources, has succeeded in water management by developing four pillars of water supply and advanced desalination technol…
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Floating desalination plant helps Barcelona cope with drought
A floating desalination plant with a capacity of 40,000 m3 of water/day will be able to help Barcelona solve its water needs amid a prolonged drought.
Science invention
New invention turns seawater into fresh water using solar energy
Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) have invented a cheap device that can turn seawater into drinking water using solar energy.
Scientific works
Billion dollar desalination plant project in the Red Sea
Jordan plans to build a huge desalination plant in the Red Sea to provide drinking water in the face of severe drought.
New technology
Breakthrough technology that cleans water around the globe
The newly developed ultra-thin diaphragm membrane can completely separate harmful ions from water such as lead, mercury, thereby opening up the prospect of cleaning wate…
New technology
'3 in 1' system: Using solar energy to produce electricity and desalination water
Solve three problems at once: water shortage, electricity shortage and emissions reduction.
Scientific works
The factory turns seawater into 75,000 liters of drinking water every day
GivePower nonprofit organization builds a solar water desalination plant in the coastal area of Kiunga, Kenya.
New technology
The anti-drought technology in agriculture is remarkable
Drip irrigation, desalination of water sources, or water intake from the air are the anti-drought technologies currently in use in the world.
Environment
Israel developed a new method to reduce seawater desalination costs
Israeli researchers have developed a method to treat biological odors that damage seawater desalination.
New technology
Turn seawater into fresh water at a super cheap cost
Using ultra low cost solar energy, easy to install and repair, saline water desalination equipment into fresh water of Italian engineers can obtain 20 liters of fresh wa…
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Drinking too much water, people are making the sea ... more salty
Areas that do not have enough drinking water often switch to desalination solutions, the process of removing salt in seawater to make it drinkable.
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How can submarine sailors survive for months in the sea?
Live in a metal tube hundreds of meters deep in the ocean, away from all the hustle and bustle of life on earth, nothing but water and a strange silence.
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13 ways that Graphene metamaterials will change future technology (Part 2)
Since graphene was first discovered in 2004, it promises to create a new technological revolution around the world.
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Why do few people separate fresh water from sea water?
When cities sink because of fresh water, the obvious solution will be seawater separation. But in fact, this technology has been very slow for thousands of years. Althou…
Archeology
The discovery of dinosaur fossils hindered Australia's term plan
A desalination project to help Australia's second largest city escape a $ 2.7 billion drought is likely to be postponed when dinosaur bones are discovered near the proje…