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Desalination is a widely used method to produce potable water, however an energy-intensive process is required to separate the dissolved salt in saltwater.

The city had to shut off potable water to residents at midnight after a water main broke, officials said.

“We recently experienced the worst drought in one hundred years,” the paleontologist adds, and Montevideo was hit by a lack of potable water.

Still, the lure of connecting with bygone civilizations by reviving their potent potables appears to be surging.

“The lack of potable water itself will mean that people will start using water from reservoirs that is not of good quality.”