Re:Making Ocean Water Drinkable
by computator on Wednesday August 26, 2015 @07:58AM
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Somewhere in your calculation there's an error.
75,000,000 cubic meters of fresh drinkable water fall from the sky per year divided by ( 0.002 cubic meters of drinking water needed per person per day x 365 days in a year ) = 103,000,000 people quenched per year.
Your tiny town gets enough fresh water from the sky for 103 million people -- still impressive.
One such town has an area of 25km^2, that's 25,000,000 square meters. Which means that on an average year, 75,000,000 cubic meters of fresh drinkable water fall from the sky.
Comparing that to stats in the grandparent post: 14 times as much drinking water falls on a tiny town in a tiny European country, as the whole world needs for drinking.
That's crazy.