Coastal residents' literacy about seawater desalination and its impacts on marine ecosystems in California

Heck, Nadine; Paytan, Adina; Potts, D. C.; Haddad, Brent M.

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2016.03.004

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“…SSD production is low but it does not require electrical energy. This tool is quite solar-powered, as ever be performed by Mirmanto (2003), Mukaddin et al 2013, Jumineti (2014), and Heck et al (2016). Therefore, this research focuses on increasing distilled water productivity from SSD distillers.…”

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confidence: 93%

“…This plant produces around 728,000 cubic meters of desalination water per day by employing MSF and RO technology as revealed by Cheong et al (2016). The second biggest desalination plant is Carlsbad in California, United States, which generates around 190,000 cubic meters of desalination water a day by applying RO equipment, released in December 2015, Heck et al (2016). The simplest, easiest to make, and easy to operate desalination equipment is a solar still distillation (SSD) system.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Effect of Absorber Types of Conventional Distillers on the Amount of Distilled Water Production

Mirmanto¹,

Wirawan²,

Sayoga³

et al. 2019

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer

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Due to clean water crisis in the dry season in some places in Indonesia, experiments to find the best distiller to provide distilled water were performed. The long-term goal of this study is to create a distiller that is cheap, simple, easy to make, durable, low maintenance, but produces plenty of distilled water. Three identical conventional distillers with different absorbers had been tested for about 6 days in May 2019. These three distillers were used to evaporate and condense seawater to be distilled water. The absorbers types employed were type A, B, and C. The results show that the distiller with the type C absorber is the best distiller. The distilled water produced is 1.3 liter per day. Therefore, this distilleris recommended to use, develop and study further.

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Section: Introduction *mentioning

confidence: 99%

Effect of Absorber Types of Conventional Distillers on the Amount of Distilled Water Production

Mirmanto¹,

Wirawan²,

Sayoga³

et al. 2019

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer

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“…The state has promulgated new rules designed to address environmental concerns: closely regulating sub-surface intake system, imposing salinity limits on brine discharges and requiring extensive monitoring on marine ecosystems [98]. However, California's powerful and vociferous environmental community remains uncomfortable with the technology, leaving the general public confused and fundamentally ignorant about the associated issues and dilemmas [99].…”

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Addressing Desalination’s Carbon Footprint: The Israeli Experience

Tal

2018

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Given the extraordinary proliferation of seawater desalination plants, Israel's transition to become a country that almost exclusively relies on desalination for municipal water supply is instructive as a case study, especially given concerns about the technology's prodigious carbon footprint. This article offers a detailed description of the country's desal experience with a focus on the associated energy requirements, environmental policies and perspectives of decision makers. Israel's desalination plants are arguably the most energy-efficient in the world. The present consensus among government engineers, however, is that meaningful improvements in energy efficiency are unlikely in the foreseeable future. Official evaluations of increased introduction of solar-driven reverse osmosis (RO) processes concluded that mitigation of greenhouse gases will have to be attained in industries other than the water sector. The article details myriad environmental benefits that desalination has brought the country. However, it argues that given the imperative of stabilizing atmospheric concentration of carbon, and the modest renewable energy supply to Israel's national grid to date, public policy can no longer offer the water industry a path of least resistance. Present plans envision a significant expansion of Israel's desal infrastructure, requiring a far higher commitment to renewable energy supply and regulations phasing down present energy demands.

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“…Inconsistent responses can stem from multiple factors, including a lack of understanding of the management issue under consideration [44,52]. As desalination is a fairly new technology in California, coastal stakeholders may require more information on the technology and its impacts to make more informed decisions [29]. However, as high inconsistency levels have also been detected in studies on management preferences in other marine sectors, such as fisheries [51,71], inconsistencies in this study might not necessarily stem from a lack of understanding of this new technology.…”

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Management priorities for seawater desalination plants in a marine protected area: A multi-criteria analysis

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The development of seawater desalination plants to increase water reliability in coastal areas poses a threat to the health of near shore marine ecosystems and may affect the effectiveness of marine protected areas (MPAs) that have been established to meet international conservation targets. This paper applies a multi-criteria analysis approach to quantify stakeholder groups' priorities for seawater desalination plants that have been proposed in communities adjacent to a National Marine Sanctuary. All groups placed the highest importance on minimizing environmental impacts on protected areas and endangered species that could be affected by water intake and brine discharge emphasizing the need for integrated land and sea conservation. Minimizing socio-economic impacts on coastal communities was much less important. Stakeholders also weighted reducing pressure on water levels in rivers, streams, and aquifers as more important than increasing water for residential consumption, which may foster coastal growth rather than replacing water taken from other sources. The study further revealed differences in the importance of multiple management objectives among stakeholder groups, which highlights the need to elicit distinct priorities of all groups to understand concerns and potential conflicts of desalination with existing marine users. The analysis of consistency ratios revealed that around half of all surveyed stakeholders had high inconsistencies in their responses, which suggests either a lack of understanding of desalination, or reflects the complexity of establishing desalination plants in coastal areas adjacent to a marine protected area.

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Coastal residents' literacy about seawater desalination and its impacts on marine ecosystems in California

Cited by 23 publications

References 27 publications

Effect of Absorber Types of Conventional Distillers on the Amount of Distilled Water Production

Effect of Absorber Types of Conventional Distillers on the Amount of Distilled Water Production

Addressing Desalination’s Carbon Footprint: The Israeli Experience

Management priorities for seawater desalination plants in a marine protected area: A multi-criteria analysis

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