To provide drinking water to the minor islands, which are not connected to mainland aqueducts, “the hypothesis of mobile marine desalination plants is being explored. Fixed land-based desalination plants,” said the Minister of Environment and Energy Security, Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, in a hearing before the Bicameral Commission on Insularity, “provoke citizen protests because they produce brine that must be disposed of. A mobile desalination plant avoids this problem because it disperses it at sea.”
