Desalinization plant to be built on the Bohai Sea

Want China Times, Xinhua 2014-12-06

A worker checks machinery at a desalinated water plant in Hebei province,
Oct. 21. (File photo/Xinhua)

Thirsty Beijingers can look forward to clean, tasty water after neighboring province Hebei announced it would be complete a water desalination project by 2019, authorities said Friday.

Having been approved by Hebei's planning body, the project, once operational, will have the potential to desalinate 1 million tons of seawater daily, said Beijing Enterprises Water Group's seawater desalination department director Wang Xiaoshui. This supply would provide one tenth of the metropolis' current annual water consumption.

The project is divided into two parts: seawater desalination and processed water delivery to Beijing.

The preliminary draft on the feasibility report has been finished and research work on the second part, which will include water pipeline distribution, is under way, according to Wang.

The project will be located along the Bohai Sea at Caofeidian district of Tangshan City. The ocean's current has created favorable conditions and the seawater is of a good quality compared with other parts of the Bohai Sea.

To avoid the project having any negative environmental impact, a salt farm and chemical plant will process byproducts to produce salt and chemical products, Wang said.