⚡️Should We Pull Water from the Deep Sea?

Water shortages are pushing companies to look not inland—but deep into the sea. 🌊

A new technique called deep-sea desalination is gaining traction, with the first massive plant planned for 2026 off the coast of Norway.

Desalination isn’t new, but it comes with a cost. A 2018 study showed that 16,000 plants worldwide produced 95 million cubic meters of fresh water daily—but also 141 million cubic meters of toxic brine. That brine, filled with heavy metals and pollutants, gets dumped right back into the ocean.

Flotion, the company behind deep-sea desalination, says their approach could reduce these harms. But is this really a solution—or another industrial-scale problem?

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