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does the ocean still clean these days ?

very nice job, expect to see it available soon



I suspect you got downvoted because English isn't your first language.

Something like: "Is the water from the ocean clean enough to drink? Hope to see this product available to buy soon" might be better


This is a great question. Distillation has the side effect of removing all of the microbes from water and sanitizing the output, but if this method only removes the salt will the output water be clean enough to drink?


Do you think they clean your local city water? They don't. They filter it a bit, then add chlorine to deal with biologicals, and that's it.


But municipal water typically comes from rain or snowfall. The distillation has already been done.


You wish.

No, it usually comes from a river. And guess where the waste water from a sewage treatment plant goes?

Right back into the same river, only downstream. And that's where the next city down the line picks it up.

That water gets recycled multiple times on the way to the ocean, by each city on the river.

That's not a bad thing! But the water can hardly be called distilled.


Where I live the river water comes from snow packs. And nobody's allowed to discharge treated sewage into rivers. Gross.




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