Essays on Desalination

Water is critical to life as we know it. Our planet is roughly 70% covered in water, we are roughly 60% water, and without it, we would all be dead (“Saline Water”). The trouble with our planet is that all that sweet, sweet water is not available to us. Fresh water, the water that we humans use for drinking, cooking, farming, manufacturing, and so much more, makes up only 2.5% of Earth’s water. Even more troubling, not all of that water is available. Some of it is trapped deep underground ...

Water Desalination Only 3% of the water on earth is fresh. Three-fourths of that fresh water is in theform of ice. As we waste more of our freshwater supply, water desalination will become abig part of our health. Although water desalination is expensive, it is sometimes cheaperthan shipping freshwater long distances. Desalted water provides the primary source ofmunicipal supply in many areas of the world, and its use is increasing in the United States.(Nathanson 144) Some techniques for ...

There has been large debate within the community of Sutherland Shire Council concerning the proposed desalination plant at Kurnell. The government has announced that this plant will be built to solve Sydney's current water crisis, however this comes at a heavy price. The $2 billion project will not only cost the government but it will also raise the water bill for Sydney households. There are many arguments both for and against this proposed plant and it simply comes down to the question ...

In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that the earth needs more fresh drinking water. Droughts have destroyed areas that were once lush, the “Use it or Lose” it bill and others like this have made wasting water a luxury, and water subsidies have become ridiculously high. Because humans have over allocated so much of our freshwater and used a large portion of the necessary resource, we now have to find new ways to get water, other than depleting our aquifers. However, most methods ...

Wetland water is one of the surface water sources that commonly found in a tropical ecosystem and have characteristic to contain high amount of natural organic matter (NOM). In Indonesia, wetland area are estimated as 33.39 million ha which 60% are classified as tidal and spread in Sumatera, Papua and Kalimantan. Kalimantan peoples who live surrounding wetland area was forced to using wetland water for household needs although the quality still doesn’t meet WHO standard. Moreover, the poor ...