How to Use desalinate in a Sentence

desalinate

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• The company is building a plant that will desalinate seawater.
• They were forced to stop for a week in the Azores when their water desalinating equipment broke.
  — Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 Apr. 2017
• The country has large reserves of oil and natural gas, and uses gas to desalinate water from the Gulf of Oman.
  — Ian James, azcentral, 28 Nov. 2019
• Maybe that guy will build the fastest car on Earth, or design a new way to desalinate seawater to slake the world’s thirst, or find a way into space on his own.
  — David Howard, Popular Mechanics, 30 Aug. 2020
• Malik said the team connected fire hoses that spanned 500 yards, from the ocean to a desalinating unit near the clinic that purified the water.
  — Elaine Chen, chicagotribune.com, 17 Sep. 2019
• For starters, the seawater would have to be desalinated since salt would probably affect the physics and behavior of the ice.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 20 July 2019
• Now residents get water from the river and desalinate it.
  — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Jan. 2022
• About 42 percent of water in the United Arab Emirates is desalinated, as is about 60 percent of Qatar's water.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 12 Feb. 2023
• The displaced water, meanwhile, can be put to good use—assuming it can be desalinated.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 25 Nov. 2014
• Of course, Iceland has desalinated water in spades; not so for elsewhere on Earth, which, for now, makes this project pretty hard to adopt in other countries if the CarbFix team can't adapt the method to salt water.
  — Andrew Daniels, Popular Mechanics, 9 May 2019
• So, a clean version of desalinating water sounds pretty fun.
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 3 Mar. 2023
• The base that today houses 6,000 people makes all its own electricity and desalinates its own water.
  — Carol Rosenberg, miamiherald, 12 Dec. 2011
• The cannon was taken to a conservation lab at the Washington Navy Yard to be desalinated and stabilized.
  — Jennifer McDermott, The Seattle Times, 3 June 2017
• The Navy put in artificial turf at Cooper Field, the outdoor sports complex, to save on the fuel for desalinating water for the baseball diamond and soccer pitch .
  — Carol Rosenberg, miamiherald, 12 Dec. 2011
• Antioch officials intend to invest their $10 million slice of the funds into a $62 million plant that will desalinate water from the San Joaquin River.
  — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2018
• One of them, according to the government’s outline, will focus on studying the potential for desalinating seawater from the Sea of Cortez.
  — USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2017
• It could also be used to produce hydrogen or desalinate water.
  — Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2021
• In Western Australia, desalinated water has been injected to recharge the large aquifer that Perth, Australia's driest city, taps for drinking water.
  — National Geographic, 14 July 2016
• On board, one device would use the electricity to desalinate seawater and pass the fresh water to electrolyzers to produce hydrogen.
  — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 12 July 2018
• That figure is twice the cost of desalinating seawater in California, but Bourcier says the real cost is likely much lower, perhaps as low as 50 cents per cubic meter.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 25 Nov. 2014
• The wood will be desalinated for preservation and then examined closely for things like cut marks, engravings and other signs of the ancient people who constructed it millennia ago.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 27 Aug. 2019
• But in recent years officials have talked about the coming need for direct recycling of drinking water as well, and about buying into a plant to desalinate seawater in Mexico.
  — Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 14 Dec. 2022
• San Diego and El Paso, Tex., are already desalinating brackish groundwater.
  — Rob L. Evans, Scientific American, 15 June 2023
• As a graduate student, Carl, at 24, figured out how to desalinate seawater through a solar still purifier, which used the sun's heat to evaporate seawater.
  — Audrey Jensen, The Arizona Republic, 7 Apr. 2021
• California also hosts about 20 brackish water plants which can desalinate slightly salty water from rivers, aqueducts and other sources.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2022
• Global energy use of all types (including fuels) is about 18 terawatts today, so this is a scenario where all the fuel a growing world could want are made in the Sahara, and Africa's drinking water is probably desalinated, to boot.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 8 Sep. 2018
• Intel, for instance, is targeting net positive water use globally by 2030, in part based on plans to desalinate and treat seawater and rainwater.
  — Rebecca Heilweil, WIRED, 19 July 2023
• Local authorities are trucking in water and desalinating seawater, but the supply is less than half the city’s basic requirement.
  — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 28 June 2019
• Ultimately the state will probably participate in a plan to desalinate water, using either the ocean or salty groundwater, said Garfin, who was not involved in writing the panel's report.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 28 Feb. 2022
• All these wonders — plus plants to desalinate the water needed to green its desert dunes and air condition its interiors — fuel Dubai's voracious appetite for electricity.
  — Jon Gambrell, Star Tribune, 22 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024