Researchers investigate remarkable approach to desalination
Monday, August 4, 2014 - 08:00
in Earth & Climate
Desalination has come a long way, baby. On Aug. 3, some 330 years ago, a certain Captain Gifford of His Majesty's Ship Mermaid, was asked to conduct onboard his 24-gun Royal Naval vessel what may have been the first government-sponsored, scientific desalination experiment.