Thanks Alexandra ! for sharing some insights. Regarding the desalination plant's disposal to the waters is a shame. As an average the desalination plants provide water at a high energy cost, making it 50% of operational cost. "Desalination plants on average use about 15,000 kilowatt-hours of power for every million gallons of fresh water that’s produced, the Pacific Institute said today in a report. In comparison, wastewater reuse draws as much as 8,300 kilowatt-hours of power for the same volume and importing a similar amount of water into Southern California requires as much as 14,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity, it said." (Source: https://www.nap.edu/catalog/12184/desalination-a-national-perspective)       Now there microhydro systems which can offset a large proportion of power and reduce the cost of energy, using the KCT hydro-system, http://www.kcthydropower.com/. The system has already been well received in Australia, Europe, US, and open to low head hydropower generation applications worldwide.

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Thanks Alexandra ! for sharing some insights. Regarding the desalination plant's disposal to the waters is a shame. As an average the desalination plants provide water at a high energy cost, making it 50% of operational cost.

"Desalination plants on average use about 15,000 kilowatt-hours of power for every million gallons of fresh water that’s produced, the Pacific Institute said today in a report. In comparison, wastewater reuse draws as much as 8,300 kilowatt-hours of power for the same volume and importing a similar amount of water into Southern California requires as much as 14,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity, it said."

(Source: https://www.nap.edu/catalog/12184/desalination-a-national-perspective)    

 

Now there microhydro systems which can offset a large proportion of power and reduce the cost of energy, using the KCT hydro-system, http://www.kcthydropower.com/. The system has already been well received in Australia, Europe, US, and open to low head hydropower generation applications worldwide. 

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