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IDA: New Desalination Technologies Need Time
 
The International Desalination Association (IDA) is looking for a 20% energy reduction in all major seawater desalination processes by 2015. Besides improving energy efficiency it also aims to establish a strategic framework for utilizing new technologies to upgrade the capacity and efficiency of existing desalination plants.
 
IDA President Corrado Sommariva says a number of new technologies either...