Chapter Seventeen
Miss Luana
I direct my steed past the desalinization plant to the slat flats. I slow him to a walk to rest him while I speak and take him on a tour of his new work place.
“The process is simple, Mr. Dalton. Electric motors pump seawater through a network of membranes housed in that building. The water molecule is smaller than the salt molecule. Water passes through. Salt does not. It is not efficient to completely filter all the salt from the water. Therefore a highly salty effluent flows down here to what we have termed the slat flats. Originally we just released it all back into the ocean. Then Lady Constance visited some neighboring islands where the British actually farmed salt hundreds of years ago...filling shallow man made lagoons with seawater and letting the
