which country use desalination to get fresh water?

Answer 1

Desalination of ocean water is common in the Middle East (because of water scarcity) and the Caribbean, and is growing fast in the USA, North Africa, Singapore, Spain, Australia and China.

Answer 2

DESALINATION IN SAUDI ARABIA

Saudi Arabia is the world’s largest producer of desalinated water. At present the desalination provides about 70 percent of the Kingdom’s drinking water needs. There are 30 desalination plants in the Kingdom, which supply water to more than 50 cities and distribution centers. These plants also meet about 20 percent of the Kingdom’s electricity needs. Several new desalination plants are under construction in view of the growing demand.

Saudi Arabia’s water desalination output crossed the one billion-cubic-meter mark last year. The latest plant, Shuaiba Phase Two Project, was inaugurated on 12th March 2003. Shuaiba is a coastal town on the Red Sea about 90 km southeast of Jeddah. The Shuaiba plant and the storage facility at Briman in Jeddah are linked by a 120-km long pipeline. The Shuaiba Plant is the second largest desalination plant in the Kingdom, which supplies 154 million gallons (582,689 cubic meters) of water and 500 megawatt of electricity. The Shuaiba plant was established at a cost of SR4.5 billion. The second phase will double the quantity of water supplied by the plant to Makkah and Taif and will raise the supply to Jeddah by 60 percent.

The organization responsible for desalination and supply of desalinated water through pipe lines is Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC). The SWCC made a new record during the last fiscal year as the total output of its 30 plants rose to over one billion cubic meters, which is equal to 150 liters of water daily for each individual in the Kingdom.

There are four new desalination projects, including expansion of the Wajh and Rabigh plants and establishment of two plants in Qunfuda and Laith.

Answer 3

Saudi Arabia, for one. About half of Riyadh's fresh water comes from desalination plants on the Arabian Gulf; the rest comes from wells.

Answer 4

Many countries do, especially richt countries in the middle east.
Desalination is expensive and takes huge amounts of energy.
So you will only see it in countries that
a) really need it
b) have a lot of money
c) have a lot of energy

Therefore, Saudi-Arabia is one, along with several more of the smaller oil countries. It has little fresh water of its own, so it needs to.

Answer 5

i don't know anywhere that currnetly does but Western Australia is considering it