Sentence examples for desalt from inspiring English sources

They are used mainly to desalt brackish or highly mineralized water supplies rather than much saltier seawater.

In terms of global resources, the report concludes that by 2015, nearly half of the world's population -- more than three billion people -- will be in countries lacking sufficient water, and that even more genetically modified crops or projects to desalt sea water will not substantially help.

To help meet the needs of the area's 2.3 million residents, it plans to desalt the sea.

Low-pressure pumps are then used to pipe this concentrated seawater, along with three other streams of untreated seawater, into the desalting unit.

But the first concerted efforts to produce drinking water from seawater were not until the 16th century, when European explorers on long sea voyages began installing simple desalting equipment on their ships for emergency use.

Of the two, reverse osmosis is the more widely used, particularly for desalting brackish waters from inland seas.

It is used for small-scale desalting applications for example, at coastal resorts.

Next to multistage flash distillation, reverse osmosis is the second-ranking desalting process.

Desalted water is the main source of municipal supply in areas of the Caribbean, the Middle East, and North Africa, and its use is increasing in the southeastern United States.

Desalination, also called desalting, removal of dissolved salts from seawater and in some cases from the brackish (slightly salty) waters of inland seas, highly mineralized groundwaters (e.g., geothermal brines), and municipal wastewaters.

Multistage flash distillation is a thermal process for desalting relatively large quantities of seawater.