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Desalination and Water Purification

2.500 · Mechanical Engineering · Graduate · Spring 2009

Prof. John Lienhard, Dr. Miriam Balaban

MIT · Tier 1

<p>Water supply is a problem of worldwide concern: more than 1 billion people do not have reliable access to clean drinking water. Water is a particular problem for the developing world, but scarcity also impacts industrial societies. Water purification and desalination technology can be used to convert brackish ground water or seawater into drinking water. The challenge is to do so sustainably, with minimum cost and energy consumption, and with appropriately accessible technologies.</p> <p>Thi…

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