Edo Bar-Zeev’s #paper about prefiltering for #desalination to prevent bacterial #biofouling, using a tuff bioflocculator to grow bacteria to flocculate debris, followed by a mixed-media bed filter.
on 02016-08-01original #Israel #desalination story. Edo Bar-Zeev and colleagues solved #biofouling problems by prefiltering with “porous lava stone”, which turns out to be tuff, not lava at all. #Water shortage seeded the #Syria conflict. #politics
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