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As of 2002, Ethiopia did not have any desalinization plants. I have not found any reference to any having been built since then.
Ethiopia does not have a coast. This makes it unlikely that Ethiopia will ever build desalinization plants. It does have an unusual salt lake, Lake Beseka, but this would probably not be a good location for a plant.
Some American charity groups try to help the Ethiopians build or repair village pumps and wells.
Ethiopia has hostile relations with its neighbors, particularly Eritrea, Somalia, and Sudan. Djibouti and Kenya are poor and have their own problems.
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"SOME ideas are so simple that it is surprising they have not been implemented before. On the shores of the Red Sea, near the Eritrean port of Massawa, is a cheap, self-contained, solar-powered desalination plant that provides enough fresh water to supply a village or irrigate a small farm."
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| September 23, 2009 10:14 PM |
Ethiopia does not have a coast. This makes it unlikely that Ethiopia will ever build desalinization plants. It does have an unusual salt lake, Lake Beseka, but this would probably not be a good location for a plant.
Some American charity groups try to help the Ethiopians build or repair village pumps and wells.
Ethiopia has hostile relations with its neighbors, particularly Eritrea, Somalia, and Sudan. Djibouti and Kenya are poor and have their own problems.
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http://earthtrends.wri.org/pdf_library/country_profiles/wat_cou_231.pdf
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/et.html
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September 23, 2009 03:22 PM
Ethiopia does indeed have a desalination plant, located in Massawa and is famed for ustilising a new idea hatched by a Norwegian engineer named Peter Nylund. His main speciality up until designing this plant was making dry cleaning and laundry machinery, but he retired and started travelling, bringing him to Ethiopia to try out a new idea. It in fact uses polycarbonate plastic and cotton cloths to reduce water and glass refection. "SOME ideas are so simple that it is surprising they have not been implemented before. On the shores of the Red Sea, near the Eritrean port of Massawa, is a cheap, self-contained, solar-powered desalination plant that provides enough fresh water to supply a village or irrigate a small farm."
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September 23, 2009 08:04 PM
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That caught my eye too, for more than one reason. Massawa is not in Ethiopia! It is in the hostile neighboring country of Eritrea (Eritrea and Ethiopia have fought a number of wars and are not fully at peace even now) This is a clear error by Encyclopedia.com, probably from quoting a 1995 newspaper report. Eritrea had become independent after a long war in 1991.
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&rlz=1C1CHMC_en-USUS292US304&q=Ethiopia%20coast&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl
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