The diagram below shows how salt is removed from the sea water to make it drinkable. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The diagram below shows how salt is removed from the sea water to make it drinkable. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
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The diagram illustrates the stages of making seawater suitable for drinking by reducing the salt. In general, desalination is a cycled process which consists of a number of filtering stages starting from pre-treatment filtering and submitting with the storage stage.
Firstly
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, the saltwater goes from the sea through a pretreatment filter before the main filtration.
Next,
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under high pressure, the
water
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is forced through a membrane, where impurities and salt molecules are eliminated.
After
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this
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stage filtered
water
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particles pass
further
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stages,
whereas
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filter backwash and seawater concentrate return back to the sea. In the third stage, the filtered
water
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is post-treated with lime, chlorine and fluoride for its disinfection,
as a result
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getting the potable
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.
Finally
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, desalinated
water
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is stored in a reservoir and
after
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apply
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served to people by an integrated
water
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supply system.
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Basic structure: Change the third paragraph.
Basic structure: Change the fourth paragraph.
Vocabulary: Replace the words water with synonyms.
Vocabulary: Only 3 basic words for charts were used.
Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the third paragraph.
Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the fourth paragraph.
Topic Vocabulary:
  • desalination
  • intake
  • pre-treatment
  • filtering system
  • reverse osmosis
  • semi-permeable membrane
  • dissolved salts
  • impurities
  • post-treatment
  • minerals
  • palatable
  • distribution
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