Simply because of this gigantic, mammoth machine called desalination.

This is the best technology that this region could ever have desalination.

A desalination plant on St. Thomas produces 4.45 million gallons per day.

Israel had a strategic plan for sustainable development, including systems for recycling water and sewage effluents, and desalination plants.

The region s abundant gas resources should also be used to power desalination plants to meet the Maghreb s enormous water needs.

Experiments in water management focus on the development of water harvesting techniques, the promotion of desalination plants and dam construction.

The desalination plant, which will have a capacity of 1,600 cubic metres per day, should be operational by the year 2007.

Desalination of salt water is another capital intensive option, which is used particularly in water scarce areas and for high value uses.

And in parts of the Arabian Gulf, the seawater, the salinity is increasing steadily due to the discharge of waste brine from desalination plants.

Scientific research and technical development in the field of desalination and waste water treatment, in particular, could help to overcome the constraints of water scarcity.

We are pleased to note that the IAEA assisted programme to set up a nuclear desalination plant at the Karachi Nuclear Power Plant is making good progress.

We call for the intensification of international efforts to eradicate agricultural pests, introduce low cost water desalination plants, combat desertification, and reclaim lands and render them suitable for agriculture.

So we actually sort of designed the entire island as a single ecosystem, exploiting wind energy to drive the desalination plants, and to use the thermal properties of water to heat and cool the buildings.

We are convinced that, in the near future, nuclear energy will have a fundamental role, not only in clean energy production but also in human health, agriculture, industry, food preservation, water desalination and other peaceful applications.

Other options included restructuring and construction of water infrastructure and reduction of leakage and construction of solar desalination systems despite high initial cost, and the implementation of nature and forest conservation measures to stabilize watersheds, and thus water resources.

There is also a need to intensify efforts to develop water and land related technologies for irrigation and water desalination, using solar energy technologies, and to develop pollution control measures, including integrated programmes for pest management and the control of chemical pollution.

When we run out of water, as we are in some parts of the world and soon to be in other parts of the world, we're going to have to get this from the sea, and that's going to require us to build desalination plants.