{"id":8437,"date":"2025-05-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/salt-blog\/iraqs-basra-salt-plant-thrives-amid-rising-temperatures\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T00:00:00","slug":"iraqs-basra-salt-plant-thrives-amid-rising-temperatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/en\/salt-blog\/iraqs-basra-salt-plant-thrives-amid-rising-temperatures\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq\u2019s Basra Salt Plant Thrives Amid Rising Temperatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As southern Iraq experiences soaring temperatures, the Basra Salt Plant near FAO is leveraging the heat to boost seawater-based salt production. Producing 350,000 tonnes annually, the plant uses large evaporation basins to harness climate-driven heat for faster, cleaner crystallization\u2014marking a shift from traditional rock salt mining.<\/p>\n<p>Used across oil extraction, food processing, water purification, and detergent manufacturing, the salt from Basra has become a vital industrial input. As temperatures rise, the facility is maximizing its natural conditions to scale operations and meet national demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As southern Iraq experiences soaring temperatures, the Basra Salt Plant near FAO is leveraging the heat to boost seawater-based salt production. Producing 350,000 tonnes annually, the plant uses large evaporation basins to harness climate-driven heat for faster, cleaner crystallization\u2014marking a shift from traditional rock salt mining. Used across oil extraction, food processing, water purification, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}