Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To remove salts and other chemicals from (seawater or soil, for example).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb same as
desalinate .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To remove the
salt from something, especially fromsea water
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb remove salt from
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Examples
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A better solution than "water importation" is the implementation of hydrolysis plants to desalinize the water.
Geography as Destiny, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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In addition atomic power plants can collaterally produce excess electricity at night to desalinize sea water to meet fresh water shortages in many parts of the country, which are growing rapidly.
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The other contingent is implementing important hydraulic engineering projects to desalinize the Laguna de la Leche.
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We simply forced them to build a water plant there to desalinize sea water.
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It recklessly uses 20% of its water supply to produce coal-fired electricity , and then invests massively in using that electricity to desalinize ocean water.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Carl Pope 2011
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You can store it in a pit in the ground for zero cost, buy bottled water, desalinize water, import water, or recycle sewage for agricultural use.
SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page Israel's Financial Expert 2010
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Other research on addressing global water shortages includes promising (if costly) ways to desalinize seawater and recycle wastewater.
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Other research on addressing global water shortages includes promising (if costly) ways to desalinize seawater and recycle wastewater.
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The $3.4 billion Marafiq Independent Water and Power Project has a design capacity to deliver 2,750 megawatts of power and desalinize more than 200 million gallons of seawater per day.
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The craft also had a supply of food - it's not like you can pull up to a row-through window and order anything - and a balky water-purification device to desalinize ocean water, plus an assortment of antibiotics and first-aid supplies.
unknown title 2009
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