Arid Lands Newsletter--link to home page No. 44, Fall/Winter 1998
Conflict Resolution and Transboundary Water Resources

Openness and river basin institutions: Yuma desalting plant

The control room of the Yuma Desalting Plant, which when operational is able to track and monitor every process in the water's desalination. Computerized controls in the Yuma Desalting Plant
desalting plant, stored osmosis cylinders Because the Yuma Desalting Plant is in stand-by status, personnel have removed and stored the cylinders in which osmosis (i.e., the separation of salt from water) takes place. If not put back into production flow, within a few years these cylinders will need to be replaced by new ones.

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