Rethinking Desalinated Water Quality and Agriculture

摘要

With almost half of humanity suffering insufficient access to potable water (1) and water scarcity for agriculture considered to be a global crisis (2), seawater desalination has emerged as a feasible solution. Between 1994 and 2004, world desalination capacity increased from 17.3 to 35.6 million m~3/day (3). At present, seawater desalination provides 1% of the world's drinking water (4).