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where were they getting drinking water?


some kind of desalination system/

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you could do it by evaporation / condensation given enough time .

also , maybe it rains now and again , which is the same thing.

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kind of strange that it was never dealt with in the movie.

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They are dealing with "pure hydro" all of the time???

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They traded for water at the start.

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I think with the amount of water it was showing. I wouldn't have been that salty from dilution.

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Lifeboats often come with a desalination kit - I assumed they were using something like that. You could guess that making such kits has become a low tech industry in the larger floating communities - which might be a stretch given current ones use a specialist membrane. But there would be other ways to make a kit perhaps using evaporation and condensation?

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Well I know the mariner got it from his own piss pump.

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