US Municipal Desalination Plants

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This submission presents results and observations from a series of surveys of US municipal desalination plants conducted during the last 20 years. The surveys were conducted to determine the number, characteristics, and concentrate disposal practices of US desalination plants. Each survey was intended to identify and contact each US plant that produces 25,000 gpd or more. This cutoff eliminated smaller plants that serve truck stops, mobile home parks, hospitals, campgrounds, etc. Succeeding surveys did not undertake to recontact all previously contacted plants but focused primarily on plants built since the initial survey.

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DOI	10.7481/1787564
identifier	https://data.openei.org/submissions/6462
issued	2018-08-31T06:00:00Z
landingPage	https://data.openei.org/submissions/6462
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projectNumber	36496
projectTitle	NAWI Integrated Data and Analysis
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