Desalination: expensive, environmentally problematic, but increasingly necessary - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Desalination: expensive, environmentally problematic, but increasingly necessary - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: It’s been a long time coming for desalination—de-sal for short. For decades, we have been told it would one day turn oceans of salt water into fresh and quench the world’s thirst. But progress has been slow. That is now changing, as desalination is coming into play in many places around the world.