desalt
verb
de·salt
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desalted;
desalting;
desalts
Definition of desalt
: to remove salt from
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Examples of desalt in a Sentence
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The city of Camarillo in Ventura County is proposing to desalt water from a local aquifer where supplies have become increasingly saline. — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, "$10 million coming to Bay Area desalination project — but it’s not on the ocean," 16 Mar. 2018 The top supplier is the $1 billion Carlsbad Desalination Plant in San Diego County, which opened in 2015 as the nation’s biggest desalting facility. — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, "$10 million coming to Bay Area desalination project — but it’s not on the ocean," 16 Mar. 2018 This week, the city of Antioch celebrated its place among eight communities selected to receive a share of $44 million in state money for desalting projects. — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, "$10 million coming to Bay Area desalination project — but it’s not on the ocean," 16 Mar. 2018 In the Bay Area, the Alameda County Water District has one such facility in Newark that has been desalting about 14,000 acre-feet of water annually since 2003 — about 40 percent of the water supplied by the district. — Devika G. Bansal, The Mercury News, "USGS finds vast reserves of salty water underground in California," 15 Apr. 2017 And a coalition of Bay Area water agencies is considering a much larger brackish desalination plant in Pittsburg, with the potential to desalt water from the Delta and deliver 23,000 acre-feet of water per year. — Devika G. Bansal, The Mercury News, "Desalination of aquifers offers drought-weary California new hope," 6 Feb. 2017 Coastal cities are investing in desalination plants, but desalting technology is simply too expensive to use for agriculture. — Matthew Power, WIRED, "Peak Water: Aquifers and Rivers Are Running Dry. How Three Regions Are Coping," 21 Apr. 2008These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'desalt.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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desalt
transitive verb
de·salt
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Medical Definition of desalt
: to remove salt from