Re:Freshwater from salt water using only solar energy
by bluGill on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @01:52PM
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Most of the water we desalinate gets dumped right back in the ocean, add the salt back. Even the water that doesn't get into the sewage system ends up back in the ocean again via the water cycle/rainfall. (meaning we need to worry about local salinity issues but not global)
Actually most sewage systems output water that is safe to drink so we can put that water right back into our drinking water system and forget the whole problem over an over again. (If you ban lawns there might even be water left over as food is turned into water and the food probably isn't grown with city water). People generally don't like the idea of drinking sewage though so this will never happen.
Actually most sewage systems output water that is safe to drink so we can put that water right back into our drinking water system and forget the whole problem over an over again. (If you ban lawns there might even be water left over as food is turned into water and the food probably isn't grown with city water). People generally don't like the idea of drinking sewage though so this will never happen.