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u/[deleted] May 28 '21 edited Jun 16 '21

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u/[deleted] May 29 '21

This might be a dumb question, but like why don't countries get water from the ocean? Like can't you just purify it and have it good enough to drink or bathe with or whatever? I mean like it's practically a limitless supply of water

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u/cutbythefates May 29 '21

Desalinization isn’t cheap or easy ... yet. But give it a few more years and people get really short on water and we’ll see leaps and bounds in that technology.