Ocean water desalination will not be a viable source of water for agriculture for decades.
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But one effect of that absorption is that it turns the ocean water more acidic.
Ocean water pours through a series of pipes into rows of reverse osmosis filters which purify the water.
When that ice melts, huge expanses of darker, open ocean water absorb the heat instead, warming things up.
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Cold ocean water leaks through the rock, hits the red-hot underground lava and bubbles up to the surface.
Given the looming crisis of water scarcity, we badly need more efficient and less costly methods to desalinate ocean water.
The San Onofre nuclear power plant is perched right on the San Diego beach and the reactor is cooled by ocean water.
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Since the Industrial Revolution, the acidity of ocean water has shot up by 30%, endangering ocean ecosystems and food security, and also threatening to worsen climate change effects.
That displacement of the ocean floor also displaces ocean water.
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The technology came out of funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a super capacitor to desalinate ocean water into drinking water for the troops.
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California's Department of Water Resources says it would like ocean water desalination to add 500, 000 acre-feet a year of water to the Golden State's supplies, a modest amount compared with California's overall water consumption.
It seems too impossible to believe, but according to reports from CNN, Reuters and the AP tonight, the last workers at the Fukushima-Daiichi reactors have been withdrawn from the scene, halting efforts to continue cooling partially melted fuel rods with ocean water.
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Could ocean water desalination end the fight over water rights to the Colorado River, eliminate the need for new canals and pipelines to bring water to southern California and even allow for the return of stretches of biologically damaged parts of the Sacramento River delta to healthy wetlands?
The moon is of great interest because of hints that it may have a huge ocean of water beneath its surface.
With this partnership, we hope to encourage youth and coastal communities to become engaged in the protection of their ocean and water resources.
Blue-green economies are an important means to achieve what sustainable development ultimately aims at: the wellbeing of people while respecting the environment, including ocean and water-related aspects.
Further, most farms are not near the ocean so the water would have to be pump from the ocean to the farms, add much cost.
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Much of the past week was dominated by the attempt to stop water laced with massive amounts of radioactive particles from pouring into the Pacific Ocean -- water that comes out of the reactors "screaming with radioactivity, " Friedlander said.
The Multi One Attitude Foundation and UNESCO are collaborating to raise public understanding of the urgent need to preserve and protect our ocean and fresh water.
The only caveat here is that you gotta keep Top Tag-enabled pets from swimming in the ocean: fresh water shouldn't do any damage, but salt water can totally own this device.
Many researchers now believe that the first route followed was along the coast of the Indian Ocean and that water transportation was invented very early on to reach islands in Southeast Asia.
The thing is beautiful -- and yeah, we can confirm, as Kaz suggested, that you really do want to stick out your hand and touch the picture when you're standing in front of it, particularly, when the video cycles through images of the ocean, with water droplets hitting the screen.
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The Multi One Attitude Foundation (MOAF), a charitable organisation that aims to use sailing as a means for education and awareness of key water sustainability issues, has joined with UNESCO, to promote a shared mission to raise public understanding of the urgent need to preserve and protect our ocean and fresh water.
Ocean current: flow of water in a given direction in the ocean.
Which is a shame, because the U.S. has the largest federal water zone in the world, with more ocean area suitable for deep-water fish farming than the country has arable land area.
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The rig was aground in an area of Ocean Bay, where water depth is 32 feet to 48 feet.
Critics of existing scrubber technology however point out that the technology only removes the toxic chemicals from the atmosphere at the expense of depositing them in the ocean as contaminated waste water.
Setting out on an ocean voyage, with water in gourds and pounded tubers tied up in leaves, he would point his canoe into the right slant of wind, and then along a path between a rising star and an opposite, setting one.
In the center of the ocean, wind-driven currents bring fresh water to the surface, so stirring the ocean could transform it into a well-organized storage depot.
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