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Mormon Red Death · 07-26-2007, 03:03 PM

How difficult is the process to take ocean water and turn it into drinking water?

Is it just boiling the water or is there some sort of filter?

MikeWaters · 07-26-2007, 03:03 PM

try googling "desalination plant".

I don't know the answer. Except that it is not cheap.

Mormon Red Death · 07-26-2007, 03:12 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination

this indicates that desalination is a $.53 a cubic meter. Is that 10 times what we pay? Anybody know?

07-26-2007, 03:03 PM	#1
Mormon Red Death Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Clinton Township, MI Posts: 3,126	Just curious - Ocean water to drinking water How difficult is the process to take ocean water and turn it into drinking water? Is it just boiling the water or is there some sort of filter? __________________ Its all about the suit

07-26-2007, 03:12 PM	#3
Mormon Red Death Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Clinton Township, MI Posts: 3,126	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination this indicates that desalination is a $.53 a cubic meter. Is that 10 times what we pay? Anybody know? __________________ Its all about the suit

07-26-2007, 03:03 PM	#2
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,367	try googling "desalination plant". I don't know the answer. Except that it is not cheap.