Desal Data News | Antarctica

How to Fight the Drought? - Take Out the Salt!

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:00:00

Global warming or not, drought has always been with us. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has estimated that drought costs the United States $6 to $8 billion annually, while floods and hurricanes average $2.4 billion and $1.2 to $4.8…

Newt Gingrich and the Politics of Desalination

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:00:00

A postcript from last weekend’s National Review Institute summit, comments just so entertaining we had to pass it on. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich gave the morning speech Saturday, one of his typical "big, challenging ideas" kind of addresses that…

Superb Edward Lohman

Thu, 23 Jul 1998 00:00:00

Nothing lasts, to wit: Edward Lohman, Desal Plant operator par excellence, is throwing in towel after only 35 yrs., last 11 as mgr. of Yuma RO plant operations for both Burns & Roe and Bureau of Reclamation. "I’m getting out…

NSF select Matrix desalination

Thu, 28 May 1998 00:00:00

National Science Foundation likes RO plant Matrix desalination furnished NSF research base at McMurdo Sound in Antarctica, particularly fuel & labor savings. Matrix supplied three 40,000 GPD SWRO trains four yrs. ago. Up to then McMurdo seawater desalination experience had…

5-effect evaporator, after Antarctic tests, to become space testbed

Thu, 18 Jul 1996 00:00:00

Closed ecological life support system, Antarctic Project: cooperative effort between National Science Foundation and NASA. It’s being conducted at NASA Ames in Moffett Field, CA with David Bubbenheim as principal investigator, Michael Flynn as project engineer, and Maynard Bates as…

Matrix desal draws bead on overseas markets

Thu, 08 Feb 1996 00:00:00

When seawater potable systems are needed for unusual applications world over, world looks to U.S. suppliers and nowhere is seawater technology met moreso than by Matrix Desalination, of Fort Lauderdale, FL. "I’d say 90 percent of our sales are from…

Water forecast for population growth

Thu, 06 Jan 1994 00:00:00

Outlook for next three decades is for 46-52 countries to be water-stressed or Water-scarce, as populations grow with less renewable water per person. Inevitably, nations will have to limit use of water or, report says, deal with problem of disease…

Tour conference offered by NWSIA

Thu, 16 Apr 1992 00:00:00

NWSIA will offer tour of Yuma RO desalting plant on Aug. 27 following its Newport Beach, CA biennial conference and Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Dennis B. Underwood in connection with tour has invited peer review of Yuma plant and operations…

Back to business

Thu, 12 Jan 1967 00:00:00

First nuclear powered desalting plant was back online last week at Navy’s McMurdo Sound Station in Antarctica. The 14,000 GPD flash unit operated on steam from the 1500 KWE reactor, PM-3A, built by Martin. The Aqua-Chem supplied desalting unit filled…