Zero discharge desalination technology: A new twist on conventional desalination techniques

摘要

Water scarcity is a worldwide issue. Acknowledging this reality injects a sense of urgency into today's water con-servation dialogue and the drive to cultivate and efficiently manage alternate inland drinking water sources. One familiar alternate water source is desalinated brack-ish groundwater. Depending on the characteristics of the raw source water, conventional reverse osmosis (RO) technology yields are often limited to about 75% freshwater recovery. However, if a community's only water source is brackish groundwater, a premium is placed on maximum freshwater yield from the desalination processes.