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Over the past two decades, the vessel’s hull has been excavated, disassembled, dissected, catalogued, desalted, bathed and freeze-dried for preservation.
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William Booth, Washington Post, 11 June 2023
But desalination is also a significant water source for U.S. coastal areas, which produce 11.2 percent of the world’s desalted H2O.
Back in the 1930s, the first desalters boiled seawater to capture freshwater as condensation.
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Ula Chrobak, Popular Science, 30 Dec. 2019
The city of Camarillo in Ventura County is proposing to desalt water from a local aquifer where supplies have become increasingly saline.
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Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2018
The top supplier is the $1 billion Carlsbad Desalination Plant in San Diego County, which opened in 2015 as the nation’s biggest desalting facility.
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Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2018
This week, the city of Antioch celebrated its place among eight communities selected to receive a share of $44 million in state money for desalting projects.
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Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2018
In the Bay Area, the Alameda County Water District has one such facility in Newark that has been desalting about 14,000 acre-feet of water annually since 2003 — about 40 percent of the water supplied by the district.
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Devika G. Bansal, The Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2017
And a coalition of Bay Area water agencies is considering a much larger brackish desalination plant in Pittsburg, with the potential to desalt water from the Delta and deliver 23,000 acre-feet of water per year.
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Devika G. Bansal, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2017
Coastal cities are investing in desalination plants, but desalting technology is simply too expensive to use for agriculture.
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Matthew Power, WIRED, 21 Apr. 2008
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First Known Use
circa 1904, in the meaning defined above
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“Desalt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/desalt. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
Kids Definition
desalt
verb
de·salt
(ˈ)dē-ˈsȯlt
: to remove salt from (as seawater)
Medical Definition
desalt
transitive verb
de·salt
(ˈ)dē-ˈsȯlt
: to remove salt from
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