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Desalination plants

Desalination facilities, their capacity and technology.

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Ras Al Khair desalination plant

One of the largest desalination facilities in the world, combining thermal and reverse osmosis capacity with power generation to supply Riyadh across hundreds of kilometres of pipeline.

Sorek desalination plant

A benchmark for seawater reverse osmosis cost and efficiency, using large-diameter pressure vessels and energy recovery to achieve some of the lowest reported desalinated water costs anywh…

Jebel Ali desalination complex

A very large combined power and water complex supplying Dubai, historically dominated by thermal desalination and progressively adding reverse osmosis capacity.

Carlsbad desalination plant

The largest seawater desalination plant in the Western Hemisphere, supplying San Diego County — and a standing case study in the cost and permitting difficulty of desalination in a high-re…

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