This is where desalination comes in.

海水化技术就因此出现了。

Seawater desalination is energy-intensive no matter how you slice it.

没错，海水化 是一项能源密集型产业。

Smaller desalination plants have been operating in Morocco for years.

规模较小的海水化厂已在摩洛哥运营多年。

And there are plans for more desalination plants.

而且有许多厂准备加入海水化处。

Officials say the government does not have the money to build desalination factories.

官员们表示，政府没有资金建设海水化工厂。

Using desalination is a " do or die" issue, said historian Michael Christopher Low.

历史家迈克尔·克里斯托弗·洛说，使用海水化是一个“拼死一搏”的问题。

Adaptation, including sea defences, desalination plants, drought-resistant crops, will cost a lot of money.

适应气候变化，包括海防、海水化、抗旱作物，将花费大量资金。

The state's already planning more ocean desalination projects up and down the coast.

加州已经计划在沿海地区开展更多海水化项目。

Here in Southern California the largest desalination plant in the Western Hemisphere is being constructed.

在加利福尼亚南部，西半球最大的海水化厂正在建设当中。

Desalination is the process of removing salt from seawater for use by humans and in agriculture.

所谓" 海水化" 是指将海水中的盐分去除以供人类和农业使用的过程。

At desalination plants across the kingdom, Saudi employees understand how important their work is.

在沙特各地的海水化厂，沙特员工明白自己的工作有多重要。

This means that some wells may even need to undergo desalination after extraction, thus increasing the cost.

这就意味着从一些井里抽取上来的水可能还是需要进行脱盐处，从而会增加成本。

Some desalination plants exist where feasible, but they are costly to run and can need constant repairs.

在可行的地方，有一些化海水的工厂，但它们的运营成本很高，而且可能需要不断的维修。

The Poseidon desalination plant aims to turn seawater into hundreds of thousands of gallons of freshwater annually.

波塞冬海水化工厂旨在将咸水转化成水，每天生产数万加仑的水。

Saudi Arabia first turned to desalination more than 100 years ago.

100 多年前，沙特阿拉伯首次使用海水化。

They don't have water issues anymore because they converted pretty much 90 percent of water use to desalination.

但现在这一问题已不复存在，因为他们将90%的用水转化为化海水。”

That early statement about the plant's effectiveness comes as the government plans 12 additional desalination plants.

在政府计划再建12座海水化厂的同时，也发表了有关该工厂有效性的早期声明。

Leaders since have supervised the birth of the kingdom's modern desalination systems beginning in 1970.

自 1970 年以来，领导人一直监督着沙特现代海水化系统的诞生。

All the new desalination plants, including Agadir, were meant to be powered by renewable energy.

所有新的海水化厂，包括阿加迪尔，本来都是由可再生能源提供动力的。

Indeed, Israel is a leader in the design and distribution of water conservation, desalination, irrigation and re-use technologies, among others.

事实上，以色列在节水、脱盐、灌溉和再利用等技术的设计和分配方面处于领先地位。