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Season 12 takes us back in time to follow the progress of a research project to turn salt water into drinking water. In 2018, Bahman Abbasi, associate professor of mechanical engineering, received a $2 million grant to develop a modular, portable, self-contained desalination plant. We learn how his team developed a system to the cusp of commercialization, and how they have applied the technology to other purposes such as lithium extraction.