Why don't we get our drinking water by taking salt out seawater? (2008)

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-dont-we-get-our-drinking-water-from-the-ocean/

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dsemy@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 3y (2 replies)

This is actually done on a massive scale in Israel, around half our drinking water is desalinated.

Konlanx@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 3y

Egypt does this as well. Well known tourist region Hurghada gets nearly all its drinking water from desalination.

News article about it

Nioxic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

I do believe they do that in qatar as well

Part of the reason its the most co2 emitting country (per capita)