How would you remove salt from ocean water?

Question

How would you remove salt from ocean water?

Answer 1

Distillation is one method.

Answer 2

if you want the water you can put a pan of water on the ground and place a plastic bag over it. The water will evaporate and condense on the bag. This is a simple distillation plant.

If you want the salt just fill a tray with seawater and let the water evaporate. keep adding water until you have enough salt.

Answer 3

evaporation. The water will rise and the salt will stay. You just need to find a way to keep the water in a container that stays separate from the salt.

Answer 4

If you wanted to make fresh water at low cost the best method is freezing. There are several ways fresh water is made at high cost but freezing is the only low cost method.

Answer 5

"Desalination 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."

Vacuum distillation and reverse osmosis are common methods.

To see more, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination

Answer 6

Boil it, or use a modified filtered straw