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As Water Scarcity Increases, Desalination Plants Are on the Rise

Grade 8

After decades of slow progress, desalination is increasingly being used to provide drinking water around the globe. Costs for processing salt water for drinking water have dropped, but it remains an expensive option and one that creates environmental problems that must be addressed.

BY JIM ROBBINS • JUNE 11, 2019

https://e360.yale.edu/features/as-water-scarcity-increases-desalination-plants-are-on-the-rise

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