Drought? Why Can’t We Just Remove the Salt from Seawater?
With all the terrible droughts going in the world right now, including Australia and now the US, the obvious solution (especially for the island nation of Australia) would be to remove salt from sea water, but no one has figured out how to do this efficiently yet.
In LiveScience.com, Michael Schirber quotes Australian water expert Gary Crisp as saying, “Until recently, seawater desalination was a very expensive water source solution.”
Why can’t we just drink seawater? It’s because our body can’t stand so much salt, so we end up urinating more than we drink, in order to get rid of it, and thus become even more dehydrated.
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