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MyHonestOpinon 36 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: New method turns ocean water into drinking water, ...

pardon my ignorance. But, all that salt was there already. right? Is it that we have less water there now ?

fc417fc802 35 days ago [–]

If salt and water flow in but only water flows out you will be left with salt. Same reason that concentrated brine comes out of a desalination plant, or that the dead sea is what it is.

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