DESALINIZATION

Desalinization is the removal of salt or other chemicals from something such as seawater or soil. It can be achieved by evaporation, freezing, reverse osmosis, and electrodialysis.

ANTARCTICA

• The water desalination plant in McMurdo cleans the water.
• It makes about 60,000 gallons of fresh water a day for the residents.

AUSTRAILIA

• There has been severe droughts and climate changes over the years.
• They couldn't meet the water supply demands because there wasn't enough rainfall.
• They turned to desalination plants.
• The desalination plants produce gigalitres of water annually.

ASIA

• Genesis Water Technologies
• Lenntech Water Treatment
• Companies such as these in Asia filter and purify the water.
• They also allow countries to meet their needs of water.

NORTH AMERICA

• Tampa Bay Seawater Desalination Plant
• Located in Florida
• Creates 25 million gallons of drinking water a day from seawater

SOUTH AMERICA

• Doosan announced that a desalination plant will be built in Chile.
• The Escondida seawater desalination plant can make about 22,000 tons of water.
• The water can be used by 55,000 people per day.

AFRICA

• South Africa's biggest seawater desalination plant
• Opened in Mossel Bay in the Western Cape.
• The plant has a capacity of 15 million megalitres.

EUROPE

• Barcelona Sea Water Desalination Plant
• The plant has a drinking water output of 200,000 cubed meters a day.
• Located in Spain.
• It supplies clean water to about 20% of the population.

Desalination allows people to get clean water when they can't get it from rainfalls or lakes and springs. If there was no technology for desalination, people would not have had clean water which could cause illness and diseases to spread.