There are ways to make that water potable, though, and science is finding even more ways.In order to turn salt water into drinking water, you need to desalinate it first.
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This video shows how to distill water using simple and easy to find items. If you were to actually purchase all the items needed this project would only cost $2-5.
That just means that you need to remove the salt.There are many methods for doing this but the most efficient and realistic way to do it at home in a survival situation is by using the distillation by evaporation method.via(survivopedia)
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The glass bottle method of distillation is similar to the glass bowl method, but it has a few more advantages. For one thing, when the process is over you will already have the distilled water in a bottle and won’t have to worry about transferring it from a large bowl to a bottle.
