In many parts of California, for example, the options have narrowed to desalting ocean water or treating waste water, a choice that often brings the local citizenry into the desalting camp, fast.
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EPA said a March inspection at the Interior Department's Yuma Desalting Plant in Arizona found 61 containers of lead, trichloroethan, xylene, toluene and trichlororethylene had been stored since December 1991 without required waste permits.
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But the study noted that desalting sea water was extremely expensive _ $ 1 or more for a cubic meter of potable water _ and would not usually be considered feasible in a region without cheap and abundant fuel supplies.
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"' Desalting and buffer exchange "'are methods to separate soluble macromolecules from smaller molecules ( desalting ) or replace the buffer system used for another one suitable for a downstream application ( buffer exchange ).
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"' Desalting and buffer exchange "'are methods to separate soluble macromolecules from smaller molecules ( desalting ) or replace the buffer system used for another one suitable for a downstream application ( buffer exchange ).
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Many critics of the vast project have suggested that it may be a monumental waste of money, suggesting that it would have been far cheaper for Libya to build coastal desalting plants or even import water from a country like Turkey to meet its needs.
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O'Donnell bought property at the corner of Stevens Road and North Palm Canyon Drive and built a reservoir, which also acted as a desalting basin, through which Whitewater Mutual routed its pipeline to the area that was to become the golf course.
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With the salt threatening the town's fifth and last well, Cape May is installing the first desalination plant in the Northeast, becoming the northernmost of dozens of resorts and cities on the East Coast that have turned to desalting to offset strains on their water supplies.
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"As desalination prices keep going down, it could make economic sense for a desalting plant in California to pipe clean water to inland cities hundreds of miles away, " said Robert W . McIlvaine, president of the McIlvaine Co ., a research firm in Northbrook, Ill.
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It already has for Osmonics, a membrane and pump company in Minnetonka, Minn . In three years, desalting has quintupled to 10 percent of Osmonics sales, " and I wouldn't be surprised if it becomes a third of our business, " said D . Dean Spatz, the chief executive.
