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Desalination is removing salt and other minerals to create fresh, drinkable water.
Desalination is used where fresh water supplies are short but seawater is plentiful, to supply a community with potable water for households, manufacturing or agriculture.
While it is typically an expensive and energy-intensive solution that often supplements wasteful water use practices, it is sometimes the only solution for keeping a community going. This is where the controversies start up, is it worth the damage to the environment to run a desalination plant if other options for water collection and conservation are available?
But as fewer options are at people's disposal as groundwater supplies diminish and rivers and lakes are tapped to the limit, desalination is becoming a more attractive option.
Desalination is the process of removing dissolved salts from water, thus producing fresh water from seawater
