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Desalination technology, by the numbers

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When I started digging into desalination technology for a new story, I couldn’t help but obsess over the numbers.



I’d known on some level that desalination—pulling salt out of seawater to produce fresh water—was an increasingly important technology, especially in water-stressed regions including the Middle East. But just how much some countries rely on desalination, and how big a business it is, still surprised me.



For more on how this crucial water infrastructure is increasingly vulnerabl

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