This desalination plant is located near Tel Aviv, an Israeli coastal city, and is designed and operated by IDE Technology, an Israeli desalination company.
Seawater desalination is the production of fresh water by seawater desalination. It is an open-source incremental technology to realize the utilization of water resources, which can increase the total amount of fresh water without being affected by time, space and climate, and can ensure the stable supply of drinking water and industrial boilers for coastal residents.
The process of obtaining fresh water from seawater is seawater desalination. At present, seawater desalination methods include seawater freezing, electrodialysis, distillation, reverse osmosis and ammonium carbonate ion exchange. At present, reverse osmosis membrane method and distillation method are the mainstream in the market.
Worldwide, more than 100 scientific research institutions in more than100 countries are conducting research on seawater desalination, and hundreds of seawater desalination facilities with different structures and capacities are working. A modern large-scale seawater desalination plant can produce thousands, tens of thousands or even nearly one million tons of fresh water every day. The cost of water is decreasing, and in some countries it has been reduced to almost the same price as tap water. In some areas, the amount of desalinated water has reached the scale of national and urban water supply.
Israel suffers from drought and lack of rain all the year round, and two-thirds of its land area is covered by desert, and fresh water resources are extremely scarce. With the help of innovative seawater desalination technology, Israel can convert seawater into drinking water in just 45 minutes, thus alleviating the water shortage crisis.