| [남아프리카] 이란과 가뭄 대응 담수화시설 개발 협력
지속되는 가뭄에 대응해 물을 공급하기 위해 남아프리카는 담수화시설을 개발하기 위해 이란과 협력할 계획이라고 밝혔다. 남아프리카는 현재 엘니뇨 현상으로 1904년 이래로 역대 최악의 가뭄 중 하나로 꼽히는 가뭄 재해를 겪고 있으며, 대체 수자원을 찾고 있다.
남아프리카 정부는 웨스턴케이프(Western Cape), 콰줄루나탈(KwaZulu Natal)주를 포함한 3개 주의 모든 해안지역을 담수화시설 부지로 고려하고 있다.
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Drought-quenching desalination plants to be built by South Africa/Iran partnership
To provide water in response to the ongoing drought, South Africa will partner with Iran to develop a series of desalination facilities.
With the El Nino weather system leading to one of the worst droughts since 1904, South Africa is looking for alternative water supplies.
According to a report by Reuters, water minister Nomvula Mokonyane said: “Now with the partnership that we entered into through the binational commission between South Africa and Iran we want to go full steam.”
The government is expected to focus on all coastal municipalities in three provinces, including Western Cape and KwaZulu Natal, with Mokonyane quoted as saying “we have been over-dependent on surface water”.
Towards the end of last year South African utility Rand Water urged customers to cut back on water usage as a result of the lack of rainfall (read WWi story).
To date, the largest seawater desalination plant in South Africa is the Mossel Bay project from Veolia, which supplies 10,000 m3/day to the Mossel Bay Municipality and 5,000 m3/day of process water to PetroSA.
[출처 = Water World / 2016년 5월 11일]
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