Saudi Arabia & Desalination

Desalination means...

• filtering water from impurities

• adding salt to drinking water

• removing salt from sea water

• boiling water to remove bacteria.

The country that leads the world in the desalination Process is..

• Saudi Arabia
• United Arab Emirates
• United States
• Australia

In the desalination Process, water is filtered through ____to remove the salt.

• membranes

• sand
• rocks
• paper

The body of water that is used in the desalination process in Saudi Arabia is the ___ ____.

• Arabian Gulf
• Persian Gulf
• Indian Ocean
• Red Sea

Water is scarce in Saudi Arabia because...

• there are lots of rivers

• it rains a lot

• Saudi Arabia is mostly

  desert

The main reason most countries do not use the desalination process is that___

• limited water supply
• environmental concerns
• lack of available technology
• it is expensive

Saudi Arabia is the world leader in desalination because..

• abundant access to seawater
• lack of demand for freshwater
• they have an excess of $$ due to the country's oil production.