Wastewater produces electricity and desalinates water These are three chambered microbial desalination cells at work in Bruce Logan's, Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering, laboratory. Credit: Dave Jones, Penn State A process that cleans wastewater and generates electricity can also remove 90 percent of salt from brackish water or seawater, according to an international team of researchers from China and the U.S.http://www.physorg.com/news168778403.html