There are several ways to convert dirty and salty water to drinkable fresh water.
The most common is distillation. Heat the sea water and collect and condense the vapor to get clean water.
Reverse osmosis is another method. The water is passed through an osmotic membrane, leaving most of the impurities on one side of the membrane and clean water on the other. This is
not the same as filtration, although there are similarities in the process.
There are other methods as well, but they hold little practicality for large scale water purification.
2006-11-23 06:49:24
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answer #1
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answered by hls 6
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Flowing bubble clathrate desalination will remove all the salt and inpurities in about six cycles and produce very clean drinking water. This process uses the least energy to clean up the water and requires no chemicals addition. It uses a small amount of carbon dioxide but most is recovered and reused.
2006-11-23 07:30:09
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answer #2
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answered by david s 2
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boil it in a flask with a stooper in the top with a glass tube though it. Connect the glass tub to a condenser. The steam will go though the condenser and come out hte other end as water. Collect the water in a beaker. It will be clean water. The dirt and salt will have been left behind in the flask.
2006-11-23 23:40:30
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answer #3
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answered by ribble_girl 2
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you can distill the water -
boil the dirty water so it turns to steam then pass the staem though a glass pipe to another bottle.
while the it is going though the pipe you need to cool the water down using cold water.
I suggest you look up "distilling sea water" on yahoo
2006-11-23 06:47:09
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answer #4
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answered by ryanlc64 2
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Distilation
2006-11-25 03:15:26
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answered by Tom 1
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Read what we've been doing in WA.
Just opened the third biggest desalination plant in the world.
Look at the West Australian Sunday Times.
2006-11-23 06:51:59
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answered by Anonymous
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boil it and collect the steam on a clean piece of plastic to drip into a bowl
2006-11-23 06:43:06
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answered by tommy beresford 3
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De-salination
2006-11-23 06:52:21
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answered by voluptuous 3
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You run it through a desalination plant. However, these are only cost-effective in places like the Middle East, where energy is cheap.
2006-11-23 06:45:27
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answered by Stephen L 7
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By Building De-Salination Stations - Should have been done many years ago . but Lazy, Lazy , Lazy Governments .
2006-11-23 06:50:44
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answer #10
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answered by ? 5
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