Desalination of Seawater
Vicente Zarate
Professor Foster
English 100
November 21, 2013
“Desalination of Seawater”
Water is extremely essential to every human in this world. The scarcity of water has increased in the past decades due to the overpopulation of humans. Today, we found ourselves in a critical stage where most people have not realized the consequences for the future generations. The government is investing economic resources to find innovative methods to produce fresh water. The process that removes salt from sea waters is the desalination of sea waters to breed freshwater. This process of converting seawater to clean water has caused an answer too many countries. Countries from the Middle East where there is a massive crisis of clean water, they are recurring to this cost-effective process to the solution of the water crisis. Humans cannot drink salty water, but saline water can be made into freshwater, which people need every day to live. The process is called desalination, and as the lack of fresh water grow more countries will use it to provide drinking water. Fresh water will be in short supply in some part of the United States and the world. As the population continues to grow, the lack of fresh water will appear more frequently. In many desert regions of the world including United States, the drought of fresh water resources has been critical, and it will be increasingly influential in the future.
The water problem needs to be considered seriously as fossil energy resources to continue the factors of the world stability. Desert regions simply do not have rivers, lakes that provide with the supply of fresh water and have only few underground water resources such as wells. The technique of desalination is one of the earliest forms of water treatment and its popularity has been the key to the world today (Perlman, Howard). Is seawater the solution to solve freshwater crisis? According to the United Nations, there are more than 1 billion people living in areas
Professor Foster
English 100
November 21, 2013
“Desalination of Seawater”
Water is extremely essential to every human in this world. The scarcity of water has increased in the past decades due to the overpopulation of humans. Today, we found ourselves in a critical stage where most people have not realized the consequences for the future generations. The government is investing economic resources to find innovative methods to produce fresh water. The process that removes salt from sea waters is the desalination of sea waters to breed freshwater. This process of converting seawater to clean water has caused an answer too many countries. Countries from the Middle East where there is a massive crisis of clean water, they are recurring to this cost-effective process to the solution of the water crisis. Humans cannot drink salty water, but saline water can be made into freshwater, which people need every day to live. The process is called desalination, and as the lack of fresh water grow more countries will use it to provide drinking water. Fresh water will be in short supply in some part of the United States and the world. As the population continues to grow, the lack of fresh water will appear more frequently. In many desert regions of the world including United States, the drought of fresh water resources has been critical, and it will be increasingly influential in the future.
The water problem needs to be considered seriously as fossil energy resources to continue the factors of the world stability. Desert regions simply do not have rivers, lakes that provide with the supply of fresh water and have only few underground water resources such as wells. The technique of desalination is one of the earliest forms of water treatment and its popularity has been the key to the world today (Perlman, Howard). Is seawater the solution to solve freshwater crisis? According to the United Nations, there are more than 1 billion people living in areas
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