Coastal California City Turns to Desalination to Quench Its Thirst: Scientific American

Coastal California City Turns to Desalination to Quench Its Thirst: Scientific American: "The need for such facilities will only increase over time. Today, one out of six people on Earth, more than a billion, suffer inadequate access to safe freshwater, according to Peter Rogers's article 'Facing the Freshwater Crisis' in the August 2008 issue of Scientific American. The article further states that by 2025 the freshwater resources of more than half the countries across the globe will undergo either stress or outright shortages, and that by mid-century as much as three quarters of Earth's population could face scarcities of freshwater."