Question

source of freshwater
many countries do it today, few people do this to meet their
ter needs. but by 2025, 14 percent of us will lack freshwater. we
have to make more freshwater. so, desalination has a strong
ure.

desalination removes salt from water to make freshwater.
ople learned how to do this long ago. aristotle wrote about it in
0 bce. sailors turned salt water into drinking water in the 1770s.
en methods got better during world war ii. soldiers in the
sert needed water. in the 1950s, people found new ways to filter
awater. by the 1990s, many cities were making freshwater from
e sea.

in the last 10 years, the use of desalination has grown. the
gest projects are in saudi arabia, australia, algeria, and israel.
california, a new plant will soon serve the people of san diego.
will make 56 million gallons of freshwater each day!

which meaning of plant fits the way it is used in paragraph
3?

• a living thing that grows in the ground
• a building where something is made
• to set or place in the ground to grow
• to place or set firmly in one position

Explanation:

To determine the meaning of "plant" in paragraph 3, we analyze the context. The sentence says "a new plant will soon serve the people of San Diego" and it will make freshwater. A "plant" here refers to a facility (building) where something (freshwater) is made, matching the second option. The other options relate to living plants or planting actions, which don't fit the context of a desalination facility.

Answer:

B. a building where something is made