How 2 MIT scientists built a desalinator the size of a briefcase
Large-scale modern desalination has been around for some 60 years, and huge factory-sized plants are turning seawater into drinking water, from California (where there are a dozen desalination facilities) to Spain (where a Barcelona plant, Europe’s largest, supplies 20% of the metro drinking water) to the Middle East (where Saudi Arabia produces a fifth of the world’s desalinated water).
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