Uopian
proposition - Water treatment system
An artificial
island
In 50 years:
Singapore is
independent from any country and self-sufficient in terms of water. The country
produces all the water necessary to its needs and to its development. It
doesn’t import water from Malaysia but export it. It has developed all its
treatment plants for wastewater and rainwater. But its biggest investment is in
the inexhaustible resource: the sea. Land constraints of Singapore pushed the
stakeholders (government, public research and private companies) to invest
heavily in expensive and complex technology (micro- and ultrafiltration,
reverse osmosis, ...).
They created
and patented huge artificial islands which are desalinated plant. The visible
part of the island is a strong cultural site (for leisure activities, gathering
...) while under the island (part in sea) there is the desalinated plant. Water
is pumped into the sea, it is treated, and then stored outside on the surface
of the island (at everyone’s disposal). The advantage of a desalinated plant on
the sea is that it draws its strength from ocean currents to have turbines run
in water producing its own energy and being self-sufficient.
Diagram 1
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