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Seawater Desalination is an Expensive and Energy-Intensive Technology
- "At present, the cost and energy intensities of desalinated water are prohibitive for most communities, and particularly high for seawater which is higher in salinity than brackish water. Achieving these targets would require approximately a 4-times improvement in cost, a 3-times reduction in electricity usage, and a 2-times reduction in carbon dioxide emissions over existing seawater desalination technologies to achieve cost-competitive pipe parity." - excerpts from the White House report Water Resource Challenges and Opportunities for Water Technology Innovation, December 2015.
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