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OKC Annual Water Use 2011. City of Oklahoma City | Water & Wastewater Utilities. Utilities City of Oklahoma City We treat approximately 90 million gallons per day and have a maximum capacity of 250 million gallons per day, with a peak consumption day of 189 million gallons. Marsha Slaughter Utilities Director With water production growth anticipated at 1.5% per year, the City supply is adequate for the next 50 years.

Oklahoma City gets raw water from the North Canadian River, supplemented by Canton Reservoir (northwest of Oklahoma City) and Atoka and McGee Creek Reservoirs in southeastern Oklahoma. Now you can pay your water utility bill by telephone at 405 297-2833 or online by visiting our Online Payment Center. Our service mission: "To continually improve our delivery of cost-effective water and solid waste services by empowering employees to responsively meet customer expectations for quality, safety, reliability and environmental responsibility. " Department of Utilities 420 W. Marsha Slaughter, Director Bret Weingart, Assistant Director.

Nanoporous Graphene Could Outperform Best Commercial Water Desalination Techniques. (Phys.org) -- Although oceans and seas contain about 97% of Earth’s water, currently only a fraction of a percent of the world’s potable water supply comes from desalinated salt water. In order to increase our use of salt water, desalination techniques must become more energy-efficient and less expensive to be sustainable.

In a new study, two materials scientists from MIT have shown in simulations that nanoporous graphene can filter salt from water at a rate that is 2-3 orders of magnitude faster than today’s best commercial desalination technology, reverse osmosis (RO). The researchers predict that graphene’s superior water permeability could lead to desalination techniques that require less energy and use smaller modules than RO technology, at a cost that will depend on future improvements in graphene fabrication methods.

The scientists, David Cohen-Tanugi and Jeffrey C. Hydrogenated and (top right) hydroxylated graphene pores. Water permeability of various desalination techniques. Making Saltwater Drinkable With Graphene. El Paso Water Utilities - Public Service Board | Desalination Plant. El Paso is the site of the world's largest inland desalination plant. This plant represents a forward-looking strategy in water supply — not only for a region but also for a world that is increasingly challenged by short supplies of fresh water. A joint project of El Paso Water Utilities and Ft.

Bliss, El Paso's desalination facilities produces 27.5 million gallons of fresh water daily (MGD) making it a critical component of the region's water portfolio. Using a previously unusable brackish groundwater supply, the Kay Bailey Hutchison Desalination Plant is creating a new supply of water - water from water. In addition to providing a supply of fresh water, the facilities provide other important benefits. The facilities serve as a model and center of learning for other inland cities facing diminishing supplies of fresh water.

The water pumped to the desalination plant protects El Paso's and Ft. Desalination plants near oceans are becoming more common. Fresh Water from the Sea. Hands on activities for young aspiring chemists A magazine for high school students SciFinder®, a research tool produced by CAS (a division of the American Chemical Society), found 391 references in the CAS databases on the precise concept of "water desalination" that have been published so far this year. Among these references were 187 patents and 24 review articles. Included in the review articles was the already widely cited paper entitled "Science and technology for water purification in the coming decades". This article was co-authored by Dr. Mark Shannon and Dr. Sea Water Purification. Almost seventy percent of the surface of the Earth is covered by water bodies and as much as 97 % of it is found in the oceans.

There has always been a dearth of fresh water supply and has emerged as one of the ways to derive fresh water. Scientists from several parts of the world believe that desalinizing water from the oceans and seas may go a long way in resolving the water crisis. Sea water though available in a large volume cannot be utilized for consumption or for agricultural and industrial purposes. The saline content proves to be detrimental to one's health. It causes dehydration of the body cells and also causes sufficient damage to crops as well. Over the years, scientists have come up with several methods of sea water purification. By installing the required instrument for this purpose and by executing the correct procedure, fresh water can easily be derived from sea water. Of all these methods, distillation is the most widely used method of reducing the salinity of water.