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2006-07-21 02:12:31 · 19 answers · asked by Eve W 3 in Science & Mathematics Earth Sciences & Geology

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Seawater is drinkable after being processed in a desalination plant, which removes the majoity of the salt, leaving what is close to fresh water.

Desalination or desalinization refers to any of several processes that remove the excess salt and other minerals from water in order to obtain fresh water suitable for animal consumption or irrigation, and if almost all of the salt is removed, for human consumption, sometimes producing table salt as a by-product. Desalination of brackish water is already commonplace in the U.S., where it is used to meet treaty obligations for river water entering Mexico. Indeed, desalination has spread into use in over a hundred countries, with Saudi Arabia accounting for about 24% of total world capacity. Kuwait built the world's first large-scale desalination plant in the 1960s. Kuwait's energy reserves are so great that Kuwait is unique in using desalinated water for agriculture. The world's largest (reverse osmosis) desalination plant is in Ashkelon, Israel. It began operating on August 4, 2005, and it is capable of producing 100 million cubic meters of water per year.

2006-07-21 02:23:00 · answer #1 · answered by crazyotto65 5 · 4 1

Boil it. Have a lid above it at a angle to catch steam and run off into another container. Then you have drinkable water.

2006-07-21 02:28:11 · answer #2 · answered by bill a 5 · 0 0

Sea water can be de-salinated by distillation or osmosis and made potable(drinkable).This is already being under process in some gulf countries.

2006-07-21 02:22:43 · answer #3 · answered by sa 7 · 0 0

reverse osmosis system
which are quite expensive but on a lot of yaghts
its the same tsystem they use to convert nasty well water to tasty drinkable water in homes
we did something like it in high school science class, with a plastic bag with water and iodine in it and another plastic bag with water and baking soda in it ...we had one bag in side the other and eventually the bag with the baking soda in it turned blue
so we new the in iodine had gone throughthe plastic bag even though the water was still in it

2006-07-21 03:59:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Seawater is not drinkable.

2006-07-21 02:21:15 · answer #5 · answered by Robin V 3 · 0 0

convinced, it really is genuine. What a desalinization plant does is distill the water out of the salty answer it got here from. the warmth or ability source heats up the water to the point of steam and then captures the steam right into a condensation tank, to that end distilled water. it really is organic H2O waiting to drink or the different use. the project with desalinization plants is the quantity of ability expended to create the water. that is been economically impractical to pursue. till our water from different sources turns into too scarce, i do not imagine we can heavily pursue desalinization. A nuclear ability plant, like San Onofre on the California coast, ought to created electrical energy and collectively seize the steam from the cooling tanks into condensation tanks. The uranium rods warmth the water, arising steam that is going via the turbine turbines arising electrical energy and then cools the water for recycling lower back to the cooling ponds. rather of sending the condensed steam lower back to the cooling pond, they could seize it as distilled water for kin use. i recognize it really is conceivable, that is purely a count of no matter if people are prepared to pay for his or her water the way they pay for electrical energy.

2016-12-10 12:57:58 · answer #6 · answered by penso 4 · 0 0

By evaporating the sea water only water get vaporised and salts remain back. Condense the evaporated vapor to produce drinking water.

2006-07-21 02:17:45 · answer #7 · answered by Koyyalamudi R 2 · 0 0

Drink? If you go swimming in the sea, you may drink it but not too much or it will be to salty. For normal drinking. It can be done. I think Singapore HiFlax is doing it for the tsumami in Arch.

2006-07-21 02:21:35 · answer #8 · answered by Clive 2 · 0 0

It has to be distilled to remove the salt. They do it in Arab countries and on some islands where fresh water's in short supply.

2006-07-21 02:19:34 · answer #9 · answered by fishing66833 6 · 0 0

After Reverse Osmosis or Distillation (Vacuum assisted thermal distillation, or just thermal distillation)

2006-07-21 03:20:59 · answer #10 · answered by Amit S 1 · 0 0

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