Growing crops from seawater takes root in arid Jordan desert

The innovative facility brings together saltwater cooling and solar-powered desalination technology to produce both vegetables and fresh water.

Water-poor Jordan has launched a project that uses seawater coupled with clean energy to produce crops in an arid desert not far from the Red Sea.

Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Crown Prince Haakon of Norway, which contributed most of the $3.7 million cost, inaugurated the facility in the kingdom’s port city of Aqaba this week. Haakon told reporters he was “impressed by the way innovative ideas have been translated into a plant the size of four football fields.” [
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Growing crops from seawater takes root in arid Jordan desert2017-09-11T17:34:57+02:00

The water crisis in Iran; the government has “taken out with the permission of the leader from the National Development Fund”


 Eshagh Jahangiri, the first vice president of Iran, has said that the first government of Hassan Rouhani, “with a special permission”, has received Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei only once from the National Development Fund.

Mr. Jahangiri has said the reason for this is to provide supplies for drinking water from the West of Iran, with a surplus of over $ 8 billion. The first lieutenant of the Iranian president read on the issue of drinking water as a national issue, saying that this is the only time that the government has withdrawn a special permit [
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The water crisis in Iran; the government has “taken out with the permission of the leader from the National Development Fund”2017-09-11T17:56:56+02:00
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