The Interesting Technique to get fresh water

 

It is obvious that If you try to drink water from the ocean it will be salty. It will dehydrate you and eventually kill you. This is why no one drinks ocean water. But what happens when you have nothing else left to drink. The Emirates. It's a country with very little water. It has zero rivers. It rains 10 days a year. It is surrounded by salty ocean water and 90 percent of its groundwater is also salty. In other words, 10 million people live in the desert with not enough water to drink. Not for humans or animals.

This isn't just the Emirates. 99 percent of the world's water cannot be drunk. It's just too salty or too frozen

But for the first time, I want to show you that step by step process of how this country found water. They built the system to remove the salt from ocean water, the pressure it and they put it through a filter that traps the salt. And freshwater exits from here. This is a very complicated process.

Billions of liters of water are cleaned this way every day. Billions of liters of ocean water enter salty and leave clean

Now 90 percent of the entire country's water comes from the ocean. It is the highest in the world. Ok so we're here at a farm in the middle of the desert and I have this. This water came straight from the ocean and it was desalinated in the process. And now you can use it to feed animals feed the plants. And it's very cool. It's very warm and it's very drinkable.

That's magic. The next thing they did is even crazier. Instead of cleaning water, they created new water. And this is a true story. They used planes to release the salt to the air and the clouds. The clouds grow bigger and bigger and eventually they rain freshwater into the country. This is called cloud seeding and in 2017 they did it. Almost every single day. And when that waterfalls to the ground. They catch it. All the rainwater they collect here by building a huge dam And this freshwater is what keeps the people alive.

I don't think people appreciate this enough but this water is freshwater it's rainwater that was supposed to go to the ocean and become salty but they caught it before it went to the ocean which is a tricky process. They made this lake but most importantly you can drink this water from desalination. To cloud seeding. Two dam building

To well building. Humans are doing the impossible thing just to find awesome water. And the big idea here is simple. If we have to go and seed clouds. And do all this complicated stuff. The least we can do is to turn off the taps when not in use. Save water save life.