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Desalination Plant to Provide Third of Beijing’s Water
One-third of the tap water used in Beijing in five years will be desalinated from the sea to make it potable and boost clean supplies, according to state media.
Beijing Enterprises (371) Water Group, the biggest publicly traded water-treatment company in China, is developing the reverse-osmosis project in the Caofeidian district of Tangshan in Hebei province, the Global Times reported. The city will get about 33 percent of its water daily from the treatment facility.
The company said it’s planning to spend 7 billion yuan ($1.1 billion) on the plant and 10 billion yuan more on a pipeline to transport the water. Beijing Enterprises Water started desalinating seawater in 2012.
Beijing has been battling drought for 15 years as China works to clean its water and air of pollutants. Xinhua News Agency reported April 12 that investigators traced the source of an oil pipeline leak that contaminated the water supply of 2.4 million people in Lanzhou to a unit run by China National Petroleum Corp., the latest health- and safety-related mishap in the most-populous nation.
4 Comments on "Desalination Plant to Provide Third of Beijing’s Water"
PrestonSturges on Wed, 16th Apr 2014 2:09 am
Note to the people who think China’s military might will rule the world – one more big fat infrastructure bulls eye just got added to their map.
Makati1 on Wed, 16th Apr 2014 2:32 am
Preston, military might is NOT the real power today. That is where the ‘brains’ in DC are lost. Finances and resources are the might of today and tomorrow. The ability to take down the US and never fire a shot is in the hands of the Empire’s enemies now and they (China, Russia, Iran, etc.) know it. That’s how I see it anyway.
peterjames on Wed, 16th Apr 2014 2:40 am
China also today announced that it will burn an extra million tonnes of coal each year to power its newest desalination plant. Dr Hung Toolow said the new desalination plant will overcome the failures of the earth to expand in a timely manner, and cleanse itself, in accordance with chinas population and economic growth plans. Mr Toolow said the extra hole created by the coal extraction is positive as it will allow overflow for rising sea levels. Whilst doomers and gloomers may see this as a negative, barely a protestor could be seen on the streets (it must be noted, that due to smog, we would not have been able to find anything anyhow).
Mr Toolow said chinas policies will have minimal effect on its future than policies pursued by other countries. He stated whilst the world will suffer huge environmental disasters in the near future, on average only one child in each chinese family will die. The average for every other country in the world will be two children per family.
Northwest Resident on Wed, 16th Apr 2014 5:24 am
“…on average only one child in each chinese family will die.”
So, one hundred percent.
I never saw you post here before peterjames. More biting sarcasm to ridicule blatant stupidity is just what this world needs more of. Keep it up!