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Australia Turns to Desalination Amid Water Shortage

Parts of Australia are getting drier than ever -- so dry that some cities are scrambling to adapt by finding new water sources before it's too late. Perth has just opened the continent's first reverse-osmosis desalination plant -- and it's run on wind power.

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