Gone Saline
Aug 26, 2021
2 minutes
WORDS _Evan Pavka
the United Arab Emirates is the world’s second-largest desalinator. On a daily basis, seawater is cleansed of the equivalent of about 4,800 Olympic-sized swimming pools of sodium chloride — which is then poured back into the ocean as a concentrated brine —, which function as both integral habitats and carbon sinks sequestering CO.
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