사우디 수도·전력 포럼(SWPF)의 대표 Dr Adil Bushnak이 사우디 아라비아가 점점 늘어만 가는 담수화 플랜트에 ‘비용적으로’ 집중된 의존을 끊어야 한다고 경고했다.

그는 소비 중심구에 근접한 곳에 위치한 소규모 물 생산 플랜트의 수가 더 많아져야 한다고 제안하고 ‘수백 킬로미터의 물 펌프에 대한 비논리성’을 주장했다. 그는 “메가 담수화 플렌트에 의해 엄청난 에너지의 양과 비용이 소모된다. 아직 그들은 사우디 왕국의 물 부족을 끝낼 리스크나 사고에 계속해서 노출되어 있다”고 말했다.

 

 

 

President of the Saudi Water and Power Forum (SWPF) Dr Adil Bushnak, has warned that Saudi Arabia must end its rising dependence on "costly" centralised desalination plants.

 

He proposed a move to greater numbers of small water production plants sited close to consumption centres and asserted that is was "illogical to pump water hundreds of kilometers." He went on: "This requires costly and large amounts of energy consumed by mega desalination plants. Yet they are continually exposed to risks or crashes, which will end up with a shortage of water in the Kingdom."

 

Speaking of the tenth SWPF that will be held in January, Bushnak said building small plants in cities and close to residential areas as well as dealing with the private sector to buy local fresh water would reduce cost to the state for water production and transport.

 

Bushnak emphasized the need to use non-renewable groundwater as a source of drinking water to be sufficient for hundreds of years rather than continuing to drain it in few decades in traditional agriculture. Also emphasized the need to store drinking water underground sufficient for six months not six days close to all cities.

 

He urged the ministry to use the valleys as storages to replace traditional surface dams with groundwater dams, to reduce rainwater evaporation and increase rain harvesting.

 

[출처 = Desalination & Water Reuse / 2014년 11월 15일]