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Old 18-02-2008, 20:39   #22
Bonnyboy
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Re: Bottled water

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Originally Posted by blazey View Post
I dont understand why water can't be taken from the sea via piping systems and purified for 3rd world countries, surely it couldn't be that expensive for all the countries to chip in together and do it. I think there must be technology advanced enough for that.
The technology has existed for years, it’ called desalination. Quite a few ships have desalination plants, cruise liners, submarines etc. Don’t know how costly a desalination plant would be on an extra large scale.
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