{"id":741,"date":"2017-07-08T17:42:59","date_gmt":"2017-07-08T21:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/?p=741"},"modified":"2017-07-08T17:42:59","modified_gmt":"2017-07-08T21:42:59","slug":"from-the-web-green-roofed-desalination-plant-is-worlds-first-to-treat-both-fresh-and-saltwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/07\/08\/from-the-web-green-roofed-desalination-plant-is-worlds-first-to-treat-both-fresh-and-saltwater\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Web: Green-roofed desalination plant is world\u2019s first to treat both fresh and saltwater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-742\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/files\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-06-at-5.55.40-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1184\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-06-at-5.55.40-PM.png 1184w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-06-at-5.55.40-PM-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-06-at-5.55.40-PM-768x398.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-06-at-5.55.40-PM-1024x531.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-06-at-5.55.40-PM-500x259.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/>Desalination is an important component of Singapore\u2019s water supply \u2013 and the island country has a new desalination plant in the works decked out with green features. The large-scale facility can treat both freshwater and saltwater, and according to Today Online and other local news outlets, it\u2019s thought to be the first one of its kind in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The Keppel Marina East Desalination Plant will be the first of its kind in Singapore, and some publications say in the world. It will be the country\u2019s fourth desalination plant, but the first large-scale dual-mode one. It will treat water from the sea or the Marina Reservoir, depending on whether the weather is dry or wet. Keppel Infrastructure is constructing the plant under a 25-year Water Purchase Agreement with Singapore\u2019s national water agency, PUB.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/inhabitat.com\/green-roofed-desalination-plant-is-worlds-first-to-treat-both-fresh-and-saltwater\/\">Learn more<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><em>(via inhabitat)<\/em> &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desalination is an important component of Singapore\u2019s water supply \u2013 and the island country has a new desalination plant in the works decked out with green features. The large-scale facility can treat both freshwater and saltwater, and according to Today Online and other local news outlets, it\u2019s thought to be the first one of its &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/07\/08\/from-the-web-green-roofed-desalination-plant-is-worlds-first-to-treat-both-fresh-and-saltwater\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From the Web: Green-roofed desalination plant is world\u2019s first to treat both fresh and saltwater&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3919,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[221,427000,425248,425622],"tags":[4433],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-from-the-web","category-green-leap","category-renewables","tag-sustainability"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8b9n0-bX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":743,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions\/743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}