Desalination: A solution to water shortage

Desalination is used to extend drinkable water supplies beyond what is naturally available.

Clean freshwater is critical for sustaining human life. However, 1.1 billion people lack access to it worldwide. Desalination represents an increasingly popular way of addressing this. Desalination is the process of extracting salt from saline water to make it drinkable. There are two main types of desalination.