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Get yourself a simple distillation apparatus. It consists of a round bottom flask you put your sea water in, which then connects to a still head, and then a cold water condenser, an adapter and receiving flask. Heat the sea water to boiling, and then the pure water vapor will condense in the column, and collect in the receiving flask. The sea salts will be left behind in the original flask, and you will have nice pure water....example http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Simple_distillation_apparatus.svg
The first thing to consider is what is in the sea water that makes it undrinkable.
Sea water usually contains salt and random chemicals.
The easiest way to remove these impurities is to boil the water so it evaporates. The steam produced can caught on a cold angled surface, so it condenses, forms water droplets, and runs off into a container.
The safest way is to use a filter, preferably one with lots of layers for best purification.
Seawater is distilled by running it through equipment where heat is added to evaporate water from it. Of course the salt does not evaporate - just the water. The water vapor passes through a condensation unit where heat is removed and the water condenses to give a stream of essentially pure water. The caveat is that if there are some other volatile liquids mixed into the water they will evaporate and then condense with the water. If you were to run ocean water that had been fouled by an oil spill through a distillation unit, it would foul up the unit as the oil evaporated with the water and then condensed with it in the condensation unit. As long as that is not the case you get pure water out of the condenser. Note that it is very energy intensive to do this so it is only economical to use water distilled from seawater as a water source in places that have no other good water sources and that have a lot of energy available. It's actually used some in the Middle East where oil can be used as a much cheaper energy source and they have no significant water sources.
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What must you do to make sea water fit for drinking water?
I'm not really for sure. I do know that it is VERY expensive!
Why filtering will not help you to make drinking water from sea water?
Drinking water can be made from sea water either by reverse osmosis filtering, or vacuum distillation, but both are too slow and expensive to be very useful.
Why can't filtering be used to make sea water fit to drink?
It can
Why cant filtering make sea water fit to drink?
Filtering alone cannot make sea water fit to drink because sea water contains high levels of salt, minerals, and other impurities that are difficult to remove through simple filtration. Additional processes, such as desalination through methods like reverse osmosis, are needed to make sea water safe for drinking.
How do you get drinking water from sea water using natural materials?
What material can be used to filter sea water
Why is sea water unfit for drinking use?
Beacause it could kill you and make you have to go to the hospital. This is why we can only drink freshwater.
Can drinking water be extracted from sea water or salty ground water?
both.
Is Sea Salt safe to put in your drinking water?
no
Why were the sea's important to the Greeks?
It provided drinking water.
Do you need to take drinking water to survive in Antarctica?
No. You can melt ice or desalinate sea water to obtain sufficient drinking water.
Can sea water be purified in water works to produce drinking water?
yes it can be purified
What is the correct name for engineering plants that distill seawater into drinking water?
Desalination plants convert sea water into drinking water by distillation.
