Desalination Around the World: Which Countries Distill Seawater — and Why Burning Trash Could Power the Next Generation
Roughly one in every twenty-five litres of municipal drinking water on Earth no longer starts in a river, lake, or aquifer. It starts in the ocean — pulled in through an intake pipe, pushed through a desalination train, and turned into freshwater by either heat or pressure. Today there are 15,906 operational desalination plants worldwide…