Alon Tavor, CEO of IDE Technologies Group, provides a deep dive into desalination and provides valuable insights on water use. In this episode, Reese Tisdale also returns with a Bluefield on Tap segment, breaking down Bluefield’s latest analysis of capital improvement plans and CAPEX spending trends across water and wastewater utilities.
In this session, you’ll learn about:
- Alon’s extensive history of running companies and how it led him to the water sector
- What IDE stands for (hint: it’s not “I Do Everything”)
- The history of desalination as a water source
- The current state of desalination
- The development of reverse osmosis technology—how and when it emerged
- Why desalination is considered a “must have” water source
- How desalination can be achieved in a sustainable manner
- Brine return diffusion
- Why brine return needs to be in deeper waters away from shore
- Alon’s thoughts on the future of desalination
- Key drivers pushing desalination forward
- Alon’s views on desalination versus reuse
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