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Also Known As	desalting • desalinization

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Desalination plant with multiple tall smokestacks and large cylindrical tanks near the shoreline at Arecife on Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain.

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Rows of large reverse osmosis pressure vessels with blue piping line both sides of an aisle inside the Claude Bud Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant in San Diego County, California.

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