The Al Khafji desalination plant uses reverse osmosis to produce 60,000 m³ of fresh water per day. (Source: Siemens)
Water from the sun

Making Seawater Desalination Green! Solar Power as Key for more Sustainability

How a desalination plant uses the most sustainable and available energy source to generate fresh drinking water — Seawater desalination has a large ecological footprint, as the processes used to generate fresh water from brine or seawater are energy intensive an often rely on fossil fuels. Luckily, the arid regions that rely on desalination the most have one resource in abundance: sunlight. Can solar power bring green drinking water to the Middle East?

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