Comments on: This Desalination Infographic is Like Taking Climate Change Advice from Shell

By: Tafline Laylin

Tafline Laylin — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 04:57:40 +0000

Thanks for your comments gentlemen. John, I will look into Sundrop Farms.

By: JTR

JTR — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:28:07 +0000

Desalinization is only a “necessary evil” if we assume our human population will keep on gowing to 8, 9, 10 billion and more. Instead, we should agree to peacefully reduce such ecocidal numbers with family planning education, and safely recycle 100% of our human-generatd waste materials.

By: Robin Wiseman

Robin Wiseman — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:40:49 +0000

If you want a more rounded picture of what the desalination industry is doing to address all the ‘evils’ you mention, keep an eye on http://www.desalination.biz, the website of Desalination & Water Reuse, the magazine of the International Desalination Association (IDA) whose own website is http://www.idadesal.org. You will find that IDA has set up Environment and Energy task forces to group global thinking and find solutions to these current drawbacks for desalination.

At the recent joint conference of the American Membrane Technology Association (an IDA affiliate) and the American Water Works Association, one of the main topics was disposal of desalination concentrate and the novel methods being explored to bring this to near zero. Many low-energy forms of desalination are currently being researched as well as much more efficient membrane materials like graphene.

Modern desalination has only just evolved as a properly mature industry, it is now looking at how it can evolve further in a sustainable fashion.

By: John

John — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:58:01 +0000

Go have a look at how Sundrop Farms are desalinating saltwater. They have a youtube channel called SundropFarmsTV (http://www.youtube.com/user/SundropFarmsTV)