BajaNomad - 7-3-2020 at 12:29 AM
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The coronavirus pandemic has not altered plans to construct four desalination plants in Mexico’s northeast, a region with long-running drought
problems.
The plants are for the cities of La Paz and Los Cabos in Baja California Sur state, Playas de Rosarito in Baja California state and Puerto Peñasco in
Sonora state.
At a combined investment of 12.8bn pesos (US$555mn), the projects were unveiled in November when the government and the private sector presented the
first stage of the 2020-21 national infrastructure program.
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More details regarding each facility are in the article at:
https://www.bnamericas.com/en/features/mexico-desalination-p...
elgatoloco - 7-3-2020 at 09:28 AM
Its a start. Clean drinking water is a scarce commodity in many places on the globe and indications are its getting scarcer. Technology needs to
advance and that hopefully happens as more of these projects get built.
My brother-in-law is a biologist and worked for the City of San Diego for many years in the water department. The last 3-4 years of his career (he
retired 10+ years ago) was spent investigating and testing methods to turn sewer water to drinking water. Costs aside they found membranes and methods
that actually make the water that came out the end of the hose cleaner then what was coming from other more traditional supplies. The fact that
someone coined the phrase 'toilet to tap' set the progress they had been making back a few years but now may water suppliers are doing just that. They
call it Pure Water. Words matter.