In photos: Dubai’s massive desalination plant

Where they tame the undrinkable ocean
water pours into filtration baskets
reverse-osmosis facility
man on a bicycle near the massive tubes that make up the plant
water flows out of a spigot
brine outflows in the the gulf

This article was originally published in the March/April 2017 issue of Popular Science, under the title “Where they tame the undrinkable ocean.”

 

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Kelsey D. Atherton

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Kelsey D. Atherton is a military technology journalist who has contributed to Popular Science since 2013. He covers uncrewed robotics and other drones, communications systems, the nuclear enterprise, and the technologies that go into planning, waging, and mitigating war.