Tag: desalination
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Preparing for climate change: California’s huge investment in water storage
On Tuesday, the California Water Commission completed a groundbreaking process to make the state’s largest investment in water storage in a generation. With the commission’s action, eight diverse projects around the state are in line to receive nearly $2.7 billion from Proposition 1, approved by voters in 2014. These projects – including $816 million for…
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66-year-old Alan Turing paper inspires new water-purification technique
When you think about the English computer scientist Alan Turing you most probably think of either his code-breaking efforts at Bletchley Park during World War II or his early hypotheses about artificial intelligence, which resulted in the formulation of the famous Turing Test. Something you probably don’t associate him with? Groundbreaking chemistry — and, more…
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How a purple school bus brings clean drinking water to Navajo Nation
Photo: Mark Henle/azcentral.com Video (see link below): Mark Sorensen, Star School co-founder, talks about an old school bus that was converted into a solar-powered water desalination system to purify well water for residents on the Navajo Nation. Many in the Navajo Nation don’t have running water and the well water often isn’t safe to drink.…
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Opinion: Desalination plant in Southern California is important to water security
Photo: Workers prepare a desalination plant for service at the Charles Meyer Desalination Facility in Santa Barbara this year. (Jim Gensheimer/Bay Area News Group) Climate change is all around us. Extreme weather conditions including recent Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria demonstrate the intensity and impact of climate change on our environment. We’ve seen California and…
