Cleaning rivers by using carbon fiber woven using nishijin brocade technology

2009.07.06 Junji Hashimoto

From July 2009 the "Rotary International District 2840," which is comprised of 47 rotary clubs in Gunma prefecture, will try to help improve water quality of the Dongalo River in Manila, Philippines. The material that will be used in this undertaking is carbon fiber. We often hear carbon fiber being mentioned nowadays, but do you know about its key features?

http://www.thinktheearth.net/thinkdaily/news/water/679.html

From my reading it is the Japanese that invented the Graphene membrane

"A research group at the Global Aqua Innovation Center for Improving Living Standards and Water-Sustainability on the campus of Shinshu University (led by Morinobu Endo, distinguished professor at Shinshu University, research leader) announced on 29 August 2017 that the group had developed a hybrid graphene oxide/graphene layered water-separating membrane capable of removing sodium chloride (salt) and coloring pigments at high levels using a simple production method. Graphene is a flat carbon substance that is only a single carbon atom thick. Nature Nanotechnology, a British science magazine, published an article on this research achievement in its issue on the same day."

https://www.gov-online.go.jp/eng/publicity/book/hlj/html/201711/201711_09_en.html

Maybe we can replace our idle desalination plants with an idle piece of carbon 

It's great to see CSIRO now more focussed on solving practical problems of commercial value, instead of studying climate change, global warming, rising sea levels and tides etc. Of course this change in direction was made possible by the Abbott government change to staffing. Great to see CSIRO back in business!!!

18% of Perth's water comes from desalination plants.

"The Perth Seawater Desalination Plant, located in Kwinana, started operating in November 2006 and produces 45 billion litres of fresh drinking water a year. 
The plant has won numerous national and international awards including the International Desalination Association’s International Desalination Plant of the Year in 2007."

From memory our dams are only around 36% full.

Yes Australia is using Desalination Plants whilst other countries like China and Japan are now for a number of years been using the graphene membrane which Australia/ CSIRO is about to start experimenting with.

So sad to see we have ruined the planet to this degree that we no longer have safe drinking water -- or enough of it.

Water theft in Australia seems to be rife and not just perpetrated by foreign interests. So much so the issue has prompted South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill to launch a state royal commission to identify any perpetrators.

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