All about Desalination
The technology of removing salt & other minerals from water.
Materials for this Technology
Effects on Water
Effects on Environment
Desalination can pull in fish, shellfish or their eggs and traps them leading to death. When they take out the salt and put it someplace in the world it effects their environment like in Middle East and North Africa.
Effects on Humans
Long Term effects of Desalination
Desalination makes green house gasses and waste products during the process that effect our atmosphere and are not good for our environment and humans.
Interesting facts about Desalination
-Desalination was invented in the 1950's
-Aruba has the largest desalination plant in the world
-In Australia they had a big water drought and no rain so they switched to Desalination and now there are multiply on the country
-Evaporation in our atmosphere is a natural Desalination
To find more info about Desalination
To find more info look on pg.291 in Science & technology perspectives textbook.
Or Desalination Wikipedia