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And in parts of the Arabian Gulf, the seawater, the salinity is increasing steadily due to the discharge of waste brine from desalination plants.
When we run out of water, as we are in some parts of the world and soon to be in other parts of the world, we're going to have to get this from the sea, and that's going to require us to build desalination plants.
And the desalination process is one where we take out salts.
So I work in Singapore at the moment, and this is a place that's really a leading place for desalination technology.
But this will produce an equally massive amount of desalination brine.
So what we're doing at the moment is we're accumulating metals like calcium, potassium and magnesium from out of desalination brine.
So I'd like you to image a mining industry in a way that one hasn't existed before; imagine a mining industry that doesn't mean defiling the Earth; imagine bacteria helping us do this by accumulating and precipitating and sedimenting minerals out of desalination brine.
Simply because of this gigantic, mammoth machine called desalination.
This is the best technology that this region could ever have: desalination.
What if it is the equivalent, depending on where you are, of the Grand Canal, in terms of tourists, habitation, desalination, agriculture?
Now, I know what you probably heard people say about seawater desalination.
Seawater desalination is energy-intensive no matter how you slice it.
But that characterization of seawater desalination as being a nonstarter is hopelessly out of date.
We've made tremendous progress in seawater desalination in the past two decades.
This picture shows you the largest seawater desalination plant in the Western hemisphere that's currently being built north of San Diego.
Compared to the seawater desalination plant that was built in Santa Barbara 25 years ago, this treatment plant will use about half the energy to produce a gallon of water.
But just because seawater desalination has become less energy-intensive, doesn't mean we should start building desalination plants everywhere.
And we can make up the difference through a combination of stormwater harvesting and seawater desalination.
But I think, with ingenuity we could see desalination, I think we could reinvest in energy, so that we can actually get better outcomes.
A company called Aquaporin is starting to make desalination membranes mimicking this technology.
So we actually sort of designed the entire island as a single ecosystem, exploiting wind energy to drive the desalination plants, and to use the thermal properties of water to heat and cool the buildings.
Responding to water scarcity by re-using and treating wastewater, or through deep-well pumping and desalination, will increase fossil-fuel use.
From messenger RNA therapeutics to the mining of metals from desalination brine, new research and development promises new opportunities for progress.
The innovations that the government encourages, such as drip irrigation or desalination, not only reduce the domestic cost of such shortages to, say, 70, but also underpin an industry that, by selling its wares in the most demanding markets, accrues a global value of more than 1,000.
Already, there are 18,000 desalination facilities in more than 100 countries producing roughly 32 billion cubic meters (8.45 trillion gallons) of fresh water – about one-third of the volume passing over Niagara Falls annually.
Annual desalination capacity worldwide is increasing by 7-9%, on average.
The region’s abundant gas resources should also be used to power desalination plants to meet the Maghreb’s enormous water needs.
Research on such genetically modified (GM) foods is well advanced in several of the largest water-scarce countries, such as China and India;- Exploit advanced desalination.
Modern developments in desalination have brought the cost per unit of desalinated seawater to levels comparable to obtaining fresh water from natural sources (approximately US$0.05 per cubic meter).
Looking forward, dirt-powered fuel cells could light remote villages so children can study, and large-scale water desalination plants may generate drinking water from the ocean.