Texas Turns Sea Water Fresh

On A One-Acre Site Alongside A String Of Shrimp Boats Docked On The Brownsville Ship Channel Stands A $2.2 Million Assembly Of Pipes, Sheds, And Humming Machinery — Texas' Entree Into Global Efforts To Make Sea Water Suitable To Drink.
​Associated Press
July 2, 2007 — On a one-acre site alongside a string of shrimp boats docked on the Brownsville ship channel stands a $2.2 million assembly of pipes, sheds, and humming machinery — Texas’ entree into global efforts to make sea water suitable to drink.
Opening a small spigot at the end of a fat pipe, plant operator Joel del Rio fills a plastic glass with what he says will taste “like regular bottled water.”
“Sea water,” he said. “It’s never gonna run out.”

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