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Reverse osmosis is one of the processes that makes desalination (or removing salt from seawater) possible. Beyond that, reverse osmosis is used for recycling, wastewater treatment, and can even produce energy.
(There are several other less frequent types of desalination methods and energy sources not discussed here.). Reverse osmosis is a process where pressure is used to push the water solution through a membrane, with the membrane preventing the larger solutes (the salt) to pass through.