Arid Australia Turns to Desalinization

This is an interesting article on how Australia plans to use technology to cope with its drought. The second is a sort of companion piece that was linked through the first one. This definitely plays into the concept of how progress can hurt.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/world/asia/11water.html?ref=science

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-impacts-of-relying-on-desalination