On this week's episode, we complete our series on desalination by discussing the near future technologies that are coming to either improve or attempt to supplant the current front runners that we discussed last week. We will also discuss the downsides of desalination and work that is being done to try to minimize or circumvent them! References: https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/five-things-know-about-desalination https://www.energy.gov/eere/articles/department-energy-invests-5-million-desalination-technology-deliver-freshwater https://e360.yale.edu/features/as-water-scarcity-increases-desalination-plants-are-on-the-rise https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-04467-3 https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/23659/chapter/14#66 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2022200118 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1871271109002049 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1364032117307086 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41545-018-0020-z https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0043135421003523 https://www.hindawi.com/journals/isrn/2011/523124/ https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9717/8/8/901 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780444639615000092 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001191642100254X https://www.nature.com/articles/s41545-022-00158-1