The decades-long quest to end drought (and feed millions) by taking the salt out of seawater | WIRED UK March 22, 2018 by Leo “The world isn’t short of water, it’s just in the wrong place, and too salty,” says Charlie Paton – so he’s spent the past 24 years building the technology to prove it Source: The decades-long quest to end drought (and feed millions) by taking the salt out of seawater | WIRED UK And he’s doing something about it.