Sea salt. Photograph: © SAF — Coastal Care
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As South Africa’s Western Cape province is in a race against time to produce solutions that will keep the taps from running dry desalination has been proposed as one of many strategies to deal with the water shortages, with Namibia and Botswana already in a joint venture to pump desalinated water from the Atlantic Ocean…
Read Full Article; All’Africa (02-06-2018)
Desalination: Option or Distraction for a Thirsty World? The WWF Report
Removing salt from sea water to overcome a worldwide shortage of drinking water could end up worsening the crisis, environmental group WWF reports.
