I know that it has salt in it but why cant you drink it? i heard somewhere it makes you more thirsty? is that true?
2006-08-11 07:28:51 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
Even on a ship or island in the middle of the ocean, there can be a "shortage of water" meaning, of course, a shortage of fresh water. This is described famously by a line from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:
"Water, water, every where
Nor any drop to drink."
Seawater can be turned into drinkable (potable) water by one of a number of desalination processes, or by dilluting it with fresh water to reduce the salinity. Otherwise, it should not be drunk because of its high dissolved mineral content. In the long run, more water must be expended to eliminate these minerals (through excretion in urine) than is gained from drinking the seawater itself.
2006-08-11 07:31:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Plain and simple the amount of salt in seawater cancels out the water and worsens dehydration because blood cells expel even more water to combat the salt.
2006-08-11 07:42:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Humans can't drink salt water because the kidneys can only make urine that is less salty than salt water. Therefore, to get rid of all the excess salt taken in by drinking salt water, you have to urinate more water than you drank, so you die of dehydration
2006-08-11 07:32:34 · answer #3 · answered by daanzig 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes it's the salt, it makes you sick if you drink too much it's basicly undrinkable, take a glass of water and poor a tablesppon of salt into it, now try to drink it, seawater is the same...
have fun
2006-08-11 07:30:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think because of the salt content, we would swell up. The salt would make us retain too much water and we would drown in our own fluids. Think about what happens when you eat too many salty snacks, don't your hands and feet get puffy?
2006-08-11 07:32:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's true that it makes you more thirsty, but it can make you sick, like u will go to the bathroom too often. and loose a few days of fun, like swimming. Take care.
2006-08-11 07:52:52 · answer #6 · answered by Alex Sirb 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fish pee in it. And salt makes you thirsty.
If you purify it and do some other stuff to get the salt out, it is drinkable.
2006-08-11 07:35:57 · answer #7 · answered by epitome of innocence 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cause salt causes your body to dehydrate
2006-08-11 07:31:21 · answer #8 · answered by pumaD 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the salt in it will make you dehydrated.
2006-08-11 07:31:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Um, your mouth is glued shut? You could drink antifreeze if you wanted to, but there are the obvious health risks.
2006-08-12 04:09:05 · answer #10 · answered by dwana49 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋