Brent Alspach is a project engineer with Malcolm Pirnie Inc. This article is excerpted from the white paper, “… And Every Drop to Drink: The Advent of Seawater Desalination in America.”
Although seawater desalination has been common practice in some parts of the world for a number of years, it has historically been considered infeasible in the United States. However, the need to develop seawater desalination is upon us.