water
By chrisken
@chrisken (85)
May 1, 2007 2:33pm CST
Why is it if the planet is over 70 percent water that so many countries have a shortage of it. It's not as if we don't know what water is composed of, or should I say H2O. Surely there must be way of 'making' water so there is enough for everyone. Are there any budding scientists out there who can solve this problem?
3 responses
@Netsbridge (3253)
• United States
1 May 07
I think it is all politics and a way to extorting money and/or resources from the general public. From common knowledge by observing my people as a child, I know that all one has to do, anywhere, to get drinking water, is to dig and dig and dig down low!
@Wolfsbayne (314)
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1 May 07
The current methods of converting salt water to drinkable are too expensive for governments to put into action, until someone comes up with a quick and inexpensive way of taking the sodium out of sea water we can't use it.
@PsychoDude (2013)
• Netherlands
1 May 07
The problem is that 99% of it is undrinkable salt water and of the remaining 1% like 1/5th poors down into the Amazon. Leaving 6.5 billion people with just 0.8% of worlds drinkable water.
Solution would be to convert salty water to fresh water. One way to do this would be boiling it and catching up the steam, like making your own clouds basically. But well yeh, boiling those massive amounts of water would with todays energy's possibilities pretty much waste them all twice as fast. So other options should be used, people in chemistry would probably know of other ways to spread salt and water?
