"Water. Water every where.
Nor any drop drop to drink."
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Distillation
The process by which sea water is evaporated thus separating the salts from the fresh water.
- High energy costs
- Additional maintenance costs due scale build up
Reverse Osmosis
The process of using pressure to send saltwater through filters that only allow fresh water to move forward, leaving salt behind.
- Filters are expensive, have high maintenance costs, fragile and are easily clogged if there is too much sediment in the water.
- Additionally produces a by product of super-saline water called brine. When returned to ocean this brine causes spikes in salt concentrations which may harm/kill local marine life.
- Problems with privatization.
