with no water coming from the
state-controlled aquifer this farm
relies solely on one well a well that
may be running dry Aaron Mandel chairman
of the company water effects has come to
evaluate the problem this is one of our
fields we have about 1,200 acres in
total that we farm and this year we’re
only able to plant about half of it
because of the lack of water supply so
that’s what our wells can reach ok so
50% of the land is actually gonna lay
from fallow
exactly the farm needs a new source of
water and Aaron believes he has a
solution
Sarah is facing the same problem a lot
of farmers in the Central Valley face
which is lack of water supply that is
causing her to have to fallow a lot of
land
she actually has all of the water
resources she needs right below her feet
there is a vast pool of subsurface drain
water just beneath the Central Valley
its runoff from irrigation unfortunately
the ground is naturally salty so the
water is tainted but aaron has devised
an affordable way to filter out the salt
reclaim the water and feed it into the
aquifer the easiest way to desalinate
water is to boil it but on a large scale
this consumes vast amounts of energy you
know that’ll open and close as you’re
tracking air temperature and water
effects co-founder and director of
engineering dr. Matt Stuber are
purifying salt water using an energy
source California has in abundance
sunshine we’ve done is developed this
plant which removed the salt from the
soil and returning this region with
impaired soil back to arable farmland
this solar array works like a magnifying
glass it concentrates the energy of the
Sun 36 times that energy heats the
mineral oil inside these pipes to over
350 degrees this creates high-pressure
steam that boils the salt out of the
water pumped up from beneath the planet
so this is where the final product comes
out it’s completely pure fresh water so
we create two products with this from
one waste source it’s fresh water and
these salty minerals now the salt
crystals are very valuable and can be
captured and used in many industries
water effects now has funding to build a
plant that can desalinate 1.6 billion
gallons of water per year Aaron and Matt
believe this breakthrough technology can
transform the Central Valley and many
other arid regions on earth
you
state-controlled aquifer this farm
relies solely on one well a well that
may be running dry Aaron Mandel chairman
of the company water effects has come to
evaluate the problem this is one of our
fields we have about 1,200 acres in
total that we farm and this year we’re
only able to plant about half of it
because of the lack of water supply so
that’s what our wells can reach ok so
50% of the land is actually gonna lay
from fallow
exactly the farm needs a new source of
water and Aaron believes he has a
solution
Sarah is facing the same problem a lot
of farmers in the Central Valley face
which is lack of water supply that is
causing her to have to fallow a lot of
land
she actually has all of the water
resources she needs right below her feet
there is a vast pool of subsurface drain
water just beneath the Central Valley
its runoff from irrigation unfortunately
the ground is naturally salty so the
water is tainted but aaron has devised
an affordable way to filter out the salt
reclaim the water and feed it into the
aquifer the easiest way to desalinate
water is to boil it but on a large scale
this consumes vast amounts of energy you
know that’ll open and close as you’re
tracking air temperature and water
effects co-founder and director of
engineering dr. Matt Stuber are
purifying salt water using an energy
source California has in abundance
sunshine we’ve done is developed this
plant which removed the salt from the
soil and returning this region with
impaired soil back to arable farmland
this solar array works like a magnifying
glass it concentrates the energy of the
Sun 36 times that energy heats the
mineral oil inside these pipes to over
350 degrees this creates high-pressure
steam that boils the salt out of the
water pumped up from beneath the planet
so this is where the final product comes
out it’s completely pure fresh water so
we create two products with this from
one waste source it’s fresh water and
these salty minerals now the salt
crystals are very valuable and can be
captured and used in many industries
water effects now has funding to build a
plant that can desalinate 1.6 billion
gallons of water per year Aaron and Matt
believe this breakthrough technology can
transform the Central Valley and many
other arid regions on earth
you
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