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		omoikane on July 5, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why is desalination so difficult? Related, it seems inconvenient that we haven't evolved to be able to just drink salt water, like cats can.

graphe on July 5, 2023 [–]

Insightful. Have we been attacking the problem the wrong way? Gene editing is another field, in the future perhaps we'll see edits to the kidneys to save water.

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