Less than 4 percent of the water in the world is freshwater. Most of the rest is locked up in in the seas. At the same time, 11 percent of the world’s population, 783 million people, do not have access to improved, safe sources of drinking water, according to the UN. Desalination may be one solution. The desalination company Energy Recovery developed this infographic to explain. See it below or on Energy Recovery’s site.
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