As global water scarcity continues to grow, innovative solutions are needed to ensure that there is enough freshwater to meet ...

Two different processes are used to obtain freshwater from saltwater – distillation and reverse osmosis. It takes around 100 liters of seawater to produce 45 liters of drinking water.

But distilled water goes through a process that ... This is achieved by reverse osmosis (forcing the water through a membrane to get rid of chemicals, minerals and microbes), ozonization ...

Most of the emirate’s desalination plants, however, still use an older technology called multistage flash distillation. Unlike reverse osmosis, which removes salt and other contaminants by ...