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| Gaza Engineer Seeks Solution to Water Woes | |||||
| 2015-05-13 | |||||
[AnNahar] With Gazoo's supply of drinking water expected to dry up by 2020,
Diaa Abu Assi, a 29-year-old father-of-two, has spent much of his spare time in the past 18 months developing the system, which he hopes will be instrumental in saving lives in the besieged enclave. "In five years, there will be no drinkable water in Gazoo," Abu Assi says. "Water shortages are a real threat to life in Gazoo. The only solution is to filter water from the Mediterranean." Funded by Gazoo's Islamic University -- which is linked with the enclave's rulers Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, -- in cooperation with an Omani research organization, the project uses nanotechnology to reduce the salinity in seawater to a drinkable level. It pumps water at high speed through large iron pipes and filters made of nano-material to extract the saline. The water is then retreated with minerals that were removed during the desalination process.
"The idea is to save Gazoo from the disaster that awaits it in the next five years by using the one resource we do have -- seawater," Abu Assi says.
- Gazoo could be 'uninhabitable' - The United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... estimates that Gazoo's population will grow by almost another 500,000 people in the next five years,
Given Gazoo's current water resources, the territory would become "uninhabitable," according to Robert Turner, director of operations in Gazoo for the U.N. agency for Paleostinian refugees (UNRWA). Gazoo now depends on groundwater from its coastal aquifer for supplies, but the enclave's water authority says 97 percent of its resources are polluted due to over-extraction and sewage contamination. The World Health Organization has warned of the danger, noting that diarrhoea among children is on the rise. The U.N. has warned the aquifer could become unusable as early as next year.
Hindi says they are seeking $300 million (274 million euros) to build a water treatment plant that has a much greater capacity. But given the reality in Gazoo, the two have struggled to raise funds. "There's always a fear that projects will be destroyed in the next Israeli bombardment," Hindi says. | |||||
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #11 "I'm just not sure we can justify that kind of money for a project with this risk." "What if we threw water balloons at the jews, ice balloons when we can make them." "Get me pictures of kids getting shot, and its $500 million." "Deal. Mahmud, call your cousin, tell him we have an order for 50 Quassam rock...errr five kilometers of portable water piping, see?" |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2015-05-13 17:42 |
| #10 Water from turkey tankers, money skimed re do in 13 years |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-05-13 15:46 |
| #9 Hindi says they are seeking $300 million (274 million euros) to build a water treatment plant that has a much greater capacity. I was wondering how they were gonna pay for it. And, as the usual answer is, they aren't! |
| Posted by: tu3031 2015-05-13 13:29 |
| #8 Maybe they can get a grant if they can tie the problem to man-made global climate change. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2015-05-13 13:15 |
| #7 Yes they wer. The Isralis let them behind so the Gazoos would have means of existence. Then the Gazoos set them fore and came tio us asking for money. They even threatened us with acts of terrorism in case we didn't gave it to them. |
| Posted by: JFM 2015-05-13 12:59 |
| #6 Gee, I wonder what the Israelis would grow in Gazoo if they were in control. Seems IIRC that there were productive greenhouses and such not that long ago. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2015-05-13 11:57 |
| #5 the Israeli version of this gazoo device was completed earlier this year and provides some 500,000 cubic meters per day |
| Posted by: lord garth 2015-05-13 11:16 |
| #4 I've seen that done on a larger scale in several places too, Al. Problem here might be trying to find sand that you would want to use and that's actually sort of clean. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2015-05-13 11:15 |
| #3 I can not understand why they need to create such a high tech (and expensive) solution. When I was living in the Virgin Islands in the 70's they desalinized seawater by running it through sand. This got enough of the salt out so that the water was drinkable. It was also a lot cheaper than what they are proposing. Al |
| Posted by: frozen al 2015-05-13 10:46 |
| #2 1000 litres a day? That is one fricking cubic _meter_!!!! This is not project for supplying drinking water, this is a _scam_ aimed at getting funds from the Paleo government or more exactly from the western tax payer. Paleos have had sixty seven years to live from their work. Not a cent more. |
| Posted by: JFM 2015-05-13 09:37 |
| #1 Sounds like Jooooo technology, destroy it |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-05-13 08:50 |