Why Is Desalination So Difficult?
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An overview of seawater desalination: removing salt to make drinkable water from the ocean. It might surprise you to learn that there are more than 18,000 desalination plants operating across the globe. But, those plants provide less than a percent of global water needs even though they consume a quarter of all the energy used by the water industry.
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