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How does a desalination plant work?

René Wilbrandt
December 18, 2024

Two different processes are used to obtain freshwater from saltwater – distillation and reverse osmosis. It takes around 100 liters of seawater to produce 45 liters of drinking water. Our viewer question this time comes from Richard Z. in Colombia.

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