How to Filter Salt Water
How to Filter Salt Water
By: Chris Anderson
Mixtures are everywhere. To what we wear to what we eat, mixtures are a vital part of our society and nature. But some mixtures are more important than others. Salt water is a good example. Salt water is, obviously, a mix between salt and water. The actual salt is almost microscopic but there is a lot of it. Drinking salt water is a big no-no as to much of it can cause your body to shut down. 75% of earth's surface is water, but the overwhelming majority is salt water. So the only way we can drink it is if we filter it into fresh water, which is a hard thing to do.
Desalination/distillation is one of our earliest forms of water treatment, and it is still a popular treatment solution throughout the world today. In ancient times, many civilizations used this process on their ships to convert sea water into drinking water. Today, desalination plants are used to convert sea water to drinking water on ships and in many arid regions of the world, and to treat water in other areas that is fouled by natural and unnatural contaminants. Distillation is perhaps the one water treatment technology that most completely reduces the widest range of drinking water contaminants.
But this process is very hard to do for an average person. Not to mention very expensive. But we may have to start converting all of our oceans into fresh water, which is almost impossible. Our lakes are drying up due to global warming and sea levels are rising due to melting glaciers. So what we need to do is stop the drying up of our lakes and wasting water.
By: Chris Anderson
Mixtures are everywhere. To what we wear to what we eat, mixtures are a vital part of our society and nature. But some mixtures are more important than others. Salt water is a good example. Salt water is, obviously, a mix between salt and water. The actual salt is almost microscopic but there is a lot of it. Drinking salt water is a big no-no as to much of it can cause your body to shut down. 75% of earth's surface is water, but the overwhelming majority is salt water. So the only way we can drink it is if we filter it into fresh water, which is a hard thing to do.
But this process is very hard to do for an average person. Not to mention very expensive. But we may have to start converting all of our oceans into fresh water, which is almost impossible. Our lakes are drying up due to global warming and sea levels are rising due to melting glaciers. So what we need to do is stop the drying up of our lakes and wasting water.
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