Israeli co helps San Diego solve water crisis.

[powderman]

http://unitedwithisrael.org/israeli-company-helps-san-diego-solve-water-crisis/
 
Israeli Company Helps San Diego Solve Water Crisis   
  Carlsbad Power Station in San Diego IDE Americas Inc., a subsidiary of Israel’s IDE Technologies Ltd., is to engage in the largest desalination plant construction project to ever hit the western United States. Israel’s IDE Technologies Ltd will be building a 204,412-cubic-meter seawater desalination plant for the greater San Diego region. The $922 million construction plan, otherwise known as the Carlsbad Desalination Project, is being administered by Poseidon Resources LP, a subsidiary of Poseidon Water LLC, and will be carried out in partnership with the San Diego County Water Authority.
 
Construction of the desalination plant is expected to begin this year and will bring high-quality drinking water to the San Diego area by 2016. The goal is that the new desalination plant will assist the San Diego County Water Authority in alleviating its water shortage and help local San Diego officials to achieve their target of supplying 7 percent of the region’s water through desalination by 2020, thus “creating a new map of the American water market,” according to a statement issued by Israel’s IDE Technologies.
The greater San Diego region is presently suffering from acute shortages in fresh water. The San Diego County Water Authority has stated that they are presently in a crisis. According to the UCSD Center for Environmental Economics, California’s water crisis exists because of drought, rapid population growth, historical over-use of water resources, and the general overall neglect of the environment. Desalination can effectively address this issue, by increasing the amount of water that is available to the population.
 
According to Avshalom Felber, CEO of IDE Technologies Ltd., “The Carlsbad Desalination Project is a significant milestone for us, California and the US at large; as we believe it will set the stage for the future of desalination in America. For decades, we’ve successfully completed similar projects in countries all over the world, and we’re excited to be a part of what will be the largest desalination plant in the US.”
 
IDE Technologies Ltd. has built and operated some of the world’s largest desalination plants, including one in China, and presently provides over the distribution of 2.3 million cubic meters of water per day around the world. This Israeli desalination company has thus far worked on 400 desalination plants in over 40 different countries, and thus has sought to significantly address water problems in many arid locations across the planet.
Mark Lambert, CEO of IDE Americas, asserted, “The Carlsbad project that we’re about to embark upon will accelerate both the visibility of desalination in North America and the ability of potential clients, both public and private, to understand how creative project delivery, creative finance and innovative process design allow these types of projects to happen. The movement in the US toward desalination has been a long time coming, and we’re ready to lead the charge.”
By Rachel Avraham

[williamlayton]

I have wondered, for years, where our thinking cap was.
Blessings

[powderman]

I have wondered, for years, where our thinking cap was.
Blessings

 
WILLIAM. Israels is with God, thats the difference. Just look at all the doors God has opened for his people to flourish, while their you know what neighbors live like pigs and live off handouts. POWDERMAN. 

[mrcooper]

Sad but we no longer have American engineers that have any kind of an I.Q. thank god Calif got some one with some brains to build it.

[oldandslow]

We have had the technology for years. One was operating in Freeport, TX in 1961. Another was built in Roswell, NM, a little later and a few more were scattered around the country all courtesy of the federal government. The oil company I worked for built a small one in the early '90s and another was constructed just south of where I live by several oil companies operating together not many years ago. This last one was to address the problem of cleaning up produce water from the oilfield to be useable. It was so successful that it produced potable water and produce water is much nastier than sea water. What did it accomplish. Nothing as produce water is still being pumped into disposal wells and trucked to evaporation basins because the companies began to argue about what they were going to be paid for their waste water that was costing them big dollars to get rid of.  The technology was given to the state of NM which basically ignored it and began spending taxpayer money in the Tularosa Basin to duplicate the effort. The local project took a few months to engineer, construct, and prove to work beyond anyone's expectations when it was finished. After several years the state's effort has just kind of dissappeared from the news. More tax money down a hole. 

What I'm getting at is the fact that an American company could be doing this but NO, we have to go to a company from a foreign country to construct it. I wonder if this company will also operate it for us?

[Hairy Chest]

White technology can be adopted by nonwhite nations (Israel), but in the end all technology will eventually disappear as will whites.  It would be the same as if Haiti had signed a contract with San Diego.  There is a trickle of good, though, that comes from subsidizing a welfare state (Israel) at the tune of a hundred Billion $. 

[powderman]

What I'm getting at is the fact that an American company could be doing this but NO, we have to go to a company from a foreign country to construct it. I wonder if this company will also operate it for us?

 
OLDANDSLOW. If they did you can bet it would be more effecient and more cost effective. POWDERMAN. 

[Shu]

The US Navy owns and operates over 200 of these plants. They are on Navy ships. This is nothing new. The real problem is the plants take up that beach front property the rich like to own. If the large coastal cities would build and operate these like alot of other countries do it would go along way to fixing water shortages.
 
Of course stop farming rice in the dessert would be another water saver.

[Shu]

TM7,
I got to agree the kick backs have got to be a few million in each pocket. Desalinazation is nothing new or fancy. Like I said the Navy has been doing it for years.

[mcbammer]

Anyone   know  how   much   salt  in  one   gallon   of   seawater?    Just  curious.