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Desalination of sea water, the process of removing salt, other minerals, or chemical compounds from impure water, has provided a limited source of potable water. ... Thus, desalination has received increasing attention in drought years when water supplies become greatly threatened or diminished. In above-average water years, permit requests for desalination facilities are infrequent.
Desalination is often misunderstood to mean only the removal salt from brackish or seawater, yet with today¡¯s technology desalination can really remove any mineral and most biological or organic chemical compounds. More appropriate terms for desalination might be "de-mineralization" or "purification" of water. Discharges to ocean and coastal water from desalination plants are a concern for ocean resource management.
Desalination facilities use two basic technologies to extract potable water from seawater. ... Desalination of sea water, the process of removing salt, other minerals, or chemical compounds from impure water, has provided a limited source of potable water.
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