Photo via Reiner Schubert As our global water crisis persists, we’re hearing more and more about the use of desalination as a viable source of drinking water. Desalination used to be written off as an energy-intensive way to separate salt from water, used on ships as the only option for supplying fresh water, or for communities in the Middle East where both seawater and fossil fuels are plentiful. However, with new technologies reducing both the energy requirements and environmental impacts of desalination plants, and with ever greater demand for di… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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