29.5.2013. 22:35 |
VODA U iZRAELU- NOVI POGONI DESALINIZACIJE
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Water surplus in Israel? With desalination, once unthinkable is possible
VIŠAK VODE U IZRAELU? POMOĆU DESALINIZACIJE, NEKAD NEZAMISLIVO SADA JE MOGUĆE
By Ben SalesMay 28, 2013, JTA
Water from the Mediterranean Sea rushes through pipes en route to being filtered for use across Israel in a process called desalination, which could soon account for 80 percent of the country's potable water. (Ben Sales/JTA)
Voda iz Mediteranskog mora nadire kroz slavine širom Izraela na putu za filtraciju u procesu koji se zove desalinizacija, što će uskoro predstavljati 80% potrebne vode u zemlji....
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Until the winter of 2011-’12, water shortages were a dire problem for Israel; the country had experienced seven straight years of drought beginning in 2004. The Sea of Galilee (also known as Lake Kinneret), a major freshwater source and barometer of sorts for Israel’s water supply, fell to dangerous lows. The situation got so severe that the government ran a series of commercials featuring celebrities, their faces cracking from dryness, begging Israelis not to waste any water.
Even as the Sea of Galilee has returned almost to full volume this year, Israeli planners are looking to desalination as a possible permanent solution to the problem of drought. Some even anticipate an event that was once unthinkable: a water surplus in Israel.
Israel Desalination Enterprises opened the first desalination plant in the country in the southern coastal city of Ashkelon in 2005, following success with a similar plant in nearby Cyprus. With Sorek, the company will own three of Israel’s four plants, and 400 plants in 40 countries worldwide.
In Israel, desalination provides 300 million cubic meters of water per year – about 40 percent of the country’s total water needs. That number will jump to 450 million when Sorek opens, and will hit nearly 600 million as plants expand in 2014, providing up to 80 percent of Israel’s potable water.
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