does drinking water com from the coean?

Question

does any/some of the water that comes out of the faucet come from the ocean? Or is there a way you can purify water from the ocean to make it drinkable (is there a factory where they purify it if they do, or is it more like a machine you can buy and do it yourself?)


no silly answers, thanks in advance

Answer 1

It is possible to purify salt water to be drinkable (yay distillation), but it isn't financially feasible for most areas. Unless you live in an island area (and even then most of the water is treated fresh water or "recycled" sewage water) most of your drinking water is not from the ocean.

Answer 2

Yes, some of the water that you drink comes from the ocean. However, not directly. Water from the ocean evaporates and falls to the ground as rain. It is then absorbed by the ground and becomes part of drinking supply.

In order to purify ocean water, you simply boil it and catch the evaporation and drink that. For instance, if you had a large pot of ocean water and boiled it under a conical piece of steel shaped a certain way, the water would evaporate from the boiling pot, rise to the steel, condensate on it, and then run off into a bucket that you have placed to catch the water.

There are reverse osmosis filters to make salt water drinkable and I've even heard of an expensive one that can be used by hand (although I can't find it online now). I had heard they used it in ocean survival rafts.

Another method of desalination is by electrodialysis. When salt dissolves in water, it splits up into charged particles called ions. Placed in a container with a negative electrode at one end and a positive electrode at the other, the ions are filtered by the membranes as they are attracted toward the electrodes; they become trapped between semipermeable membranes, leaving outside the membranes a supply of desalinated water that can be tapped.

Answer 3

Desalination is done two ways. The most common method is still boiling the sea water and collecting the steam which is collected with the impurites left behind and a more energy efficient process of filtering the impurities out of saltwater into drinkable water. Many of these plants are in operation in Australia and Saudi Arabia. US uses this on submarines.

Most of your drinking water is fresh from rivers and lakes and not the ocean.

First post, try Brownsville not El Paso and largest in US is Tampa bay.

Answer 4

Drinking water comes from one of two sources: ground water or surface water. Ground water originates from precipitation that falls in the form of rain or snow and seeps into the ground, filling the open spaces, or pore space, within layers of sand or gravel (formations) beneath the land surface. Under the ground there is a zone of saturation where the subsurface is completely saturated with water. Layers of sand and gravel in this saturated zone are called aquifers. An aquifer is a geologic formation containing water in quantities sufficient to yield water to a well. The well pumps water to the surface where the water company treats it to ensure that it is safe to drink. It is then pumped into a storage tank and upon demand by the customer, flows through distribution pipes into the home and ultimately to the faucet. Approximately two thirds of Louisiana residents obtain their drinking water from ground water.

Surface water also originates from precipitation. The precipitation reaches the land surface and recharges rivers, lakes, wetlands, and other surface water bodies directly. Water is pumped from the water body to a treatment plant and then follows the same path as ground water on its way to the consumer.

There is a finite amount of water on earth. The water on earth is used over and over again. The water cycle, or hydrologic cycle, is the continuous movement of water from ocean to air and land and then back to the ocean in a cyclic pattern. The sun heats the earth's surface water (lakes, rivers, oceans, estuaries), which causes it to evaporate. Then the water vapor rises into the earth's atmosphere where it cools and condenses into liquid droplets. The liquid droplets combine and grow until they become too heavy and fall to earth as precipitation, recharging the surface water bodies and infiltrating into the ground, recharging the ground water.

Answer 5

Many rich middle east countries have huge plants to purify sea water for their population---usually through reverse-osmosis process or solar distillation. In the US, most drinking water is derived from rivers, lakes or underground aquafiers and need only some processing to make it safe to drink.

Answer 6

It all depends of where you live; most of the water we used is fresh water that comes from rivers, streams and underground fresh water sources; sometimes the water also comes from sewage treatment plants, where it is recycled; in countries like Kuwait, the UAE and Saudi Arabia, where there are no deep water wells, they use desalination plants and their water comes from the oceans; they have plants that use reverse osmisis and desalination to make fresh water out of the ocean water; then the water is pumped hundreds of miles into cities.

Answer 7

Yes, some of the water that you drink came from an ocean. And, there are machines, called reverse osmosis machines, that take salty/brackish water and transform it into drinkable water. One of the biggest plants of this type recently opened in El Paso, Texas.

Answer 8

well if u say drinking water comes from ocean it wouldn't be wrong but it will be mostly a last choice since cleaning it makes good water though it so much expensive b/c of this machines most reliable source is underground mostly all watrer comes from underground but u can't ignore river and lakes either

Answer 9

Most water comes from reservoirs which the water plants purify.

Answer 10

Think of these steps.
1. What is Body of water?
2. The Body of water: ( e.g. ocean, lake....)
3.Types of water according to use:(portable and.....)
4.Others(methods, scientific experiment.....)