For a long time it’s been hoped that seawater could possibly be desalinated at scale, to supply ingesting water and irrigate crops. But desalination crops nonetheless solely present a fraction of the world’s contemporary water, largely as a result of they’re costly to construct and use a number of power. But because the FT’s Gill Plimmer explains, advances in expertise and inexperienced power effectivity imply desalination is now changing into a extra viable proposition.
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