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    Project entry 2014 Europe – De-Salination: Symbiotic water supply and landscape regeneration, Dublin, Ireland

    The project’s main concept is to reuse power plants’ reject water in a mixed-use infrastructure to convert salt water to potable water for the city while sustaining a salt marsh garden around the buildings by releasing a brine aerosol micro climate. The garden extends the local nature reserve and hosts a new walkway. Salt water release is designed to preserve the timber building by keeping it perpetually moist. The same water source warms a public bathing pool on the rooftop via heat exchangers.

The project reuses the warmed saltwater rejected from power plants in a mixed use infrastructure for low-cost desalination to supply water to Dublin’s growing population.

Last updated: September 24, 2015

The project reuses the warmed saltwater rejected from power plants in a mixed use infrastructure for low-cost desalination to supply water to Dublin’s growing population.

The water discharge establishes a brine aerosol microclimate – the ideal conditions for the generation of salt marsh gardens, extending the nature reserve and preserving the timber structure. The same water source warms a public swimming pool on the roof top via heat exchangers.