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Fighting the megadrought

People Fixing the World

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The Atacama Desalination Plant

Desalination is taking salt water from the sea and then turning that into fresh water. Chile has just finished building a super modern version of this technology. The plant supplies drinking water to four different local communities. It can produce water for more than 200,000 people.

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