The mania of saving water has gone out of control in Israel. Every niagara tank has a half-full handle, which lets out only half to a quarter of the water to wash down the piss or excrement. But the water siphon has a large difference in levels and such a weak stream is unable to carry the material, which lingers and accummulates in the siphon and the pipes. The WC was designed for a certain flow, and if we use less than that, it does not work properly. The saving is about 10 liter of water, costing (at Water Company prices) 0.06 shekel. The production cost of water is about 0.02 shekel at water desalination factory. Water, today, can be manufactured from sea water , which is an infinite resource. If the Water Commission is unable to authorize the establishment of those factories to produce enough water, they have to go home and let other more capable to do their job. If the problem is electricity, the Electric Corporation should increase its generation capacity, say solar or wind or atomic generation. The saving mania has gone to such extremes in Israel that in the bijouterie precious metal coating workshop design I was asked by the Ministry to calculate the water evaporating from the tanks (its surface is about 1 sqare meter) and avoid its loss. I would have to invest about 50,000 dollars to save and recicle about 1 cubic meter per year. Production cost of 1 cu m water = 0.55 dollar. It is crazy, it is demential, it is irrational. But say something against water saving, and you are an anti-green anti-Earth ecocriminal. They are so fanatic about greenness that they are actively searching for ecocriminals, so no one dares to object to the green religion. I should be the last to talk, since my living is conditional of the official approval of my designs, but I have a lifelong record of self-defeating behaviour.
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I want to thank you for your insightful posts on water. Please keep writing. If you have any ideas for a technology based water company please let me know. Regards, Daniel Schwab, Founder Kayema Investments Ltd. www.kayema.com
Thank you. I am working on it.
Speaking of crap....
Excuse me, but the _original_ Niagara designed by Plasson releases exactly the right amount of water needed to flush small to medium amounts of whatever you have floating inside the John down the toilet. If that isn't enough for your monster turds you can still use the larger handle to release the full tank.
I agree with much of what you have said about creating a second desalination plant in Israel, as opposed to going far too overboard with water conservation. Moderating our water use is the best idea.
In your experience, what were some of the bureaucratic blocks in the process that have stopped the production of a second desalination plant in Israel? Were you privy to some of the blocks that delayed the Ashkelon plant?
Also, just out of curiosity, would it make more sense for Israel to create a Multi-Stage Flash Distillation plant the next time around? If so, do you have an idea on the costs of such a project - and/or some of the blocks keeping this from happening?
Lastly, in your opinion, what would be the ideal desalination plant we could build?
Thank you very much for taking the time to answer my questions.
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