Throughout the world consumers demand is expanding for a higher level of water quality and quantity. The source of water greatly varies from country to country and in some areas desalination of seawater is the dominant process for potable water. Desalination is a process that removes dissolved minerals (including but not limited to salt) from seawater, brackish water, or treated wastewater. A number of technologies have been developed for desalination, but, in the end, pure desalinated water is acidic and is thus corrosive to pipes, so it has to be mixed with other sources of water that are piped on-site or else adjusted for pH, hardness, alkalinity and disinfectant residuals before being piped off-site to comply with potable water regulation.