Earthtalk: Can desalination saves us from freshwater woes? The protagonist of Samuel Taylor Coleridgeâs 1798 lyrical ballad The Rime of the Ancient Mariner proclaims âWater water everywhere / nor any drop to drinkâ as his ship drifts through Antarctic seas with no land (or freshwater) in sight and the crew slowly dying of thirst. An allegory for our modern age if there ever was one, weâre all in the same boat today given the fact that seawater covers 70 percent of the Earthâs surface while freshwater becomes scarcer in the face of overpopulation [âŠ] Earthtalk: Can desalination saves us from freshwater woes?HIWI042019-08-26T01:48:48+02:00