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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Modified link of Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - A review of limitations and potentials of desalination as a sustainable source of water. | Nov 01, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: PBS News - What you need to know about desalination, a growing source of drinking water as scarcity deepens. | May 07, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Ohio State University Pressbooks - Environmental ScienceBites - From Desalination to Destruction. | Sep 18, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: NPJ Clean Water - Seawater desalination concentratea new frontier for sustainable mining of valuable minerals. | Aug 08, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Southern Illinois University Carbondale - OpenSIUC - Overview of Desalination Techniques (PDF). | Mar 07, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Texas Water Development Board - Introduction to Desalination Technologies. | Nov 14, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Energy.gov - Desalination Basics. | Sep 05, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: World Economic Forum - Desalination: What is it and how can it help tackle water scarcity? | May 16, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: CORE - Desalination: Conversion of Seawater to Freshwater (PDF). | Apr 05, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Washington Post - Desalination can make saltwater drinkable � but it won�t solve the U.S. water crisis. | Jan 19, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Guardian - Desalination: the quest to quench the world's thirst for water. | Nov 24, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Academies Press - Water Desalination: History, Advances, and Challenges. | Jul 22, 2023 | ||
| Links added. | Jul 18, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - A review of limitations and potentials of desalination as a sustainable source of water. | Feb 24, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Chemistry LibreTexts - Desalination. | Dec 30, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: USGS - Water Science School - Desalination. | Dec 21, 2021 | ||
| Add new Web site: Texas A&M AgriLife Extension - Desalination Methods for Producing Drinking Water. | Dec 21, 2021 | ||
| Mentioned greenhouse gas emissions and brine wastewater, and revised production statistics. | Jan 17, 2019 | ||
| Added video. | Jan 08, 2016 | ||
| Added an image of a desalination plant. | Mar 07, 2012 | ||
| Text related to the global production and the processes used to generate desalinated water updated. | Sep 27, 2011 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Jan 22, 2010 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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