Interior of a desalination plant. Photo via Lance Cheung Just last week we noted that the UAE is dependent on fossil fuel- and natural gas-burning desalination plants to keep up their excessive water use, and that the reliance could spell a water disaster in the very near future as fuel supplies run low. However, there’s another source of energy that the UAE (and many similarly dry areas) has in abundance — sunlight. Utilizing solar power to run desalination plants could be one key step in making this source of fresh wat… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Renewable Energy Key to Making Desalination Work for Water-Crunched Countries
