Desalination Plant installed capacity figures

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I'd appreciate any sources or references that can provide publicly available data regarding the installed desalination plant capacities by plant, country or even region.  I understand such information is available from Desal Data, who seem to operate a monopoly on the provision of such data, but I cannot afford their pricing.

Mashallah Ali-Ahyaie · Answer

So far so good information you have received, but also the following article's content could provide some help:  
http://www.latimes.com/nation/sns-bc-us--california-drought-desalination-20151101-story.html
New plant tests US appetite for seawater desalination
    Hoping you feedback on your concluding findings.
Regds,
Mashallah

Rosemary Jones · Answer

Please contact for details of desalination data. rosjonesenvedu@hotmail.com

Maher Louis, PE, PEng. · Answer

Dear Mr. Runte,
Please forgive me if my response is a primitive one, however the simple internet Wikipedia is providing this information, here are some links which might be of interest "http://hbfreshwater.com/desalination-101/desalination-worldwide", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination", "http://worldwater.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2013/07/Table21.pdf"

Leon Awerbuch · Answer

If you contact International Desalination Association IDA or Global Water Inteligence they have worldwide inventory of all desalination plants Desal Data up to date. The Desalination today with 18,048 contracted plants having a total capacity of 92,060,618m3/d in over 150 countries, with the largest desalination plant in the world Ras Al-Khair in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia a hybrid thermal-membrane dual purpose plant with capacity of 1,035,000 m3/day and 2400 MW, indeed demonstrates that the global desalination and reuse community, could not be more relevant.
Leon Awerbuch

Hwee See · Answer

Hi Gerry, the following link has a list of 100 largest desalination plants proposed, in construction, or in operation as a function of capacity, location, source of water and estimated construction and operation dates, as of January 1, 2005 - a decade old! so not sure if it is still of interet to you.
http://worldwater.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2013/07/Table21.pdf

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