Lowering the High Cost of Desalination
Removing salt and other impurities from sea-, ground- and wastewater could solve the world’s looming freshwater crisis.
And yet, while industrial-scale seawater desalination plants do exist in coastal areas where the freshwater challenge is most acute, the process of making undrinkable water drinkable is largely out of reach for inland water sources due to the high cost of concentrate disposal.