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.

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.

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.

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

Now that sounds like an incredibly straightforward question to answer, and that's what Howard thought. Because Pepsi told him, Look, we're working with a band between eight and 12 percent.

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.

In the field of consumer health, the Committee noted that tagatose, a natural alternative to table sugar and artificial sweeteners, was providing a safe sweetener for diabetics without causing dental cavities or tooth decay.