Can We Make Ocean Water Drinkable - and Should We?

Reactions Science Videos | July 2, 2019

We need water to survive--and Earth is covered in it! Unfortunately, almost all of that water is salty. In this week’s episode of Reactions find out why getting freshwater from ocean water is a lot trickier than you might imagine.

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