SAN DIEGO — A recent report from the California Department of Water Resources says that mobile desalination units could provide the region’s water supply in case of an emergency or a severe drought.
An April Department of Water Resources handbook contains information about deploying mobile water desalination units, quoting manufacturers of such equipment. According to the handbook, “Mobile water desalination units provide emergency water supply wherever and whenever needed. The units can be easily moved (via air, land or marine transport) and deployed to drought-stricken and water-stressed areas.”
The handbook notes that unlike permanent desalination plants, temporary mobile units can be commissioned, installed and put into production in a short period of time.
San Diego 10News interviewed Gil Dhawan of Applied Membranes, Inc., a manufacturer of mobile desalination units. Dhawan said that within minutes of being placed next to a water source, the mobile desal unit could pump potable water.
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