Durban Municipality’s Water Project Includes Salt Sales
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Ilembe, the fastest-growing area on the east coast of South Africa, has embarked on a pilot project to increase water supplies that features selling salt extracted from a desalination plant and a shrimp-breeding farm.
The municipality of 560,000 residents north of Durban has approved a desalination plant that will supply as much as a half-million liters (132,000 gallons) of fresh water a day, recycling the salt for commercial sale. Wind turbines may be used to save on power bills.