WION Dispatch: Inside the world's biggest water desalination facility | World News
The technique of removing excess salts from sea
water
is crucial to making it safe and usable, but this water
desalination
process is also energy intensive. Saudi Arabia is the world
's largest producer of desalinated water
where researchers have patented several technologies to extract minerals from water
while protecting the sea ecosystems from sewage in our next report we will take you inside the world
's largest water
desalination
facility
it is the jabel water
desalination
plant in saudi arabia this huge facility
is labeled from being the largest in the world
it produces more than 1.4 million cubic meters of water
a day we are standing next to the Arabian gulf and here the salt water
enters the stations of the jubilee water
desalination
plant that produces 1.4 million cubic meters of water
per day that benefits the people of Jabal as well as more than 7 million people in Riyadh, so, what is water
desalination
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It is a fact that there is a serious shortage of drinking
water
in many countries and desalination
Ination of seawater
is a process that makes it safe for further use and consumption. In this process, excess water
is removed from seawater
or brackish water
. Essentially, the boar plant in Saudi Arabia extracts useful minerals from seawater
, but there's a problem: Saltwater
is very high. Wastewater
known as brine returns to the sea and can affect marine ecosystems. A 2019 United Nations global study found that the world
's approximately 16,000 plants produced an average of 1.5 liters of brine for every liter of freshwater
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Saudi Arabia is the
world
's largest producer of this wastewater
by 22 percent and that is why the Saudi Jabel plant aims to reduce the amount of concentrated brine while extracting industrially useful minerals such as salt from sodium magnesium calcium chloride researchers have applied for patents for technologies to treat wastewater
before it flows back into the Arabian gulf we are standing here in the outfall which is contained from all the reflec The water
from the power plant vacation before we put her back in the sea. These water
s go through a treatment process. We carry out a treatment so that this water
is within the standard limit of the environment and safety.Water
enters through heat rejection. Seawater
can be desalinated to extract. precious minerals, however the process itself is expensive and energy intensive, but in a hot water
-scarce country like Saudi Arabia, desalination
is a crucial lifesaver