Since there's WAY more salt water than freshwater on the Earth, we're figuring that it has to be cleaned in order to make it drinkable! We brainstormed some ways, and agreed if we boiled the water, we could catch the water that evaporates and a taste-tester could determine if the water had the salt removed!
We certainly got some freshwater from this process! Our tastetasters were happy!
BUT...and there's always a but...
1. We got such little water....like three drops from boiling the water for nearly fifteen minutes!
2. When we calculated energy costs to heat the water, our city would spend nearly $1.5 million a day! A DAY!!! We've got a lot of people in Chicago, and that's a lot of money to spend on this process.
We're thinking that people can't use this process to clean salt water. So what do they use as their water source? Is there other bodies of freshwater nearby that we're excluding? Maybe we'll turn to research and Google Maps again to help us figure out where they can be getting their freshwater from!
1. We got such little water....like three drops from boiling the water for nearly fifteen minutes!
2. When we calculated energy costs to heat the water, our city would spend nearly $1.5 million a day! A DAY!!! We've got a lot of people in Chicago, and that's a lot of money to spend on this process.
We're thinking that people can't use this process to clean salt water. So what do they use as their water source? Is there other bodies of freshwater nearby that we're excluding? Maybe we'll turn to research and Google Maps again to help us figure out where they can be getting their freshwater from!
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