Brackish Groundwater National Desalination Research Facility

Developing Technology for Sustainable Water Resources

Facility Study Goals and Objectives

• Identify research and development opportunities for a Tularosa Basin facility.

• Identify a regional, national, and international role in desalination.

• Formulate how Tularosa Basin facility would compliment National water centers.

• Develop technically and economically sound facility design, and operation and management plans.

• Complete draft study by June 2002.

• Complete report to Congress by April 2003.

• Develop facility design/build plan for July 2003 start.

Mission Statement:

• Focus on inland desalination research.

• Evaluate technologies that address environmental issues of inland brine disposal or eliminate brine.

• Evaluate pretreatment technologies needed for process efficiencies for range of inland waters, varying water chemistries, varying water contaminants, and produced water.

• Cost-effective use of smaller-scale applications.

• Application of renewable energy to desalination processes.

• Compliment capabilities of other national water treatment research centers.

• Provide educational materials on water treatment research.