Water & Wastewater Newsletter
February 19, 2009

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Water efficiency key to saving energy, expert says
In regions where pumping and distributing water requires significant electricity use, policies that lead to reduced water consumption could address climate change more efficiently than requiring businesses and households to use less energy, according to water expert Peter Gleick. `Some of the cheapest greenhouse gas emission reductions available seem to be not energy-efficiency programs, but water-efficiency programs,` said Gleick, president of the California-based Pacific Institute, a global water research center. Gleick notes, for example, that it may be cheaper for consumers to reduce the overall ...
Turning seawater into drinking water with sun and wind power
A commercial-scale, seawater desalination plant powered by solar and wind energy that produces freshwater and dry salt has been designed by Spanish researchers. The new process does not discharge highly concentrated salty water back into the sea as a by-product, ensuring that there is little damage to the marine environment. Desalination plants extract freshwater from seawater and the technology is seen as one way to meet rising demands for drinking water in drier climates. Inflowing seawater is used as both a coolant and as feedstock for the separation of salt and freshwater, but the process ...
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