Beijing is one thirsty metropolis . Its universe of 22 million consumes barely 100 cubic meters of piss per head — one fifth the international water - shortage storey — thanks to a chronic drought in the nation ’s Frederick North . But this monumental desalination works could help supply a third of the city ’s water singlehandedly .
Despite move some 1.5 billion cubic meters of water from the province ’s reservoirs to Beijing since 2008 as part of the North - South Water Diversion Project , China ’s capital city continually suffer from shortages . But now , the Chinese government is hoping to instead rein the ocean for its water supply .
The drought in China ’s north is drying out entire rivers along the Yangtze tributary organisation – range : AP look-alike
The land - runGlobal Timesrecently report that officials have start building a massive coastal desalinisation flora in the Caofeidian district of Tangshan , in Hebei Province . “ sea current make the water cleaner and well for desalination in Caofeidian than other areas of the Bohai Gulf , ” the Global Times reports .
When completed in 2019 , the plant should be capable of call off one million tons of seawater every day to bring forth as much as a third of the potable drinking H2O consumed by Beijing ’s residents . The $ 1.1 billion plant will use a proprietary — and domestically developed — rearward osmosis engineering for the scrub and a $ 1.6 billion mesh of 170 mile long tobacco pipe to get it to the city . All this scrubbing does n’t occur cheap either . The pee pitch to Beijing costs $ 1.29 a net ton , double that of diverting it from provincial reservoir .
Still , Beijing is forging ahead with the plant , which is the 2nd stage of an ambitious regional piss supply plan center around desalinisation — the largest desalinisation schema in all of China , in fact . The already - make out first form flora , also settle in Caofeidian , is already pump 50,000 tons of water a solar day with plans to increase its capability to more than triple that , or 180,000 tons a day .
Both plants are run by Aqbewg , a conglomerate of the Norwegian Aqualyng company and the state - owned Beijing Enterprises Water Group ( and presumably managed byMister Mxyzptlk ) . With this desal plant provide a stiff supply of water to its monumental population , Beijing should be able to begin sharply addressingits smog problem — widely considered the worst in the world . [ Global TimesviaNYT ]
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