Dear Mr. Gandola, Please double check again your claim; neither ion exchange, nor reverse osmosis are appropriate processes to generate potable water. Try to see by yourself how you are getting potable water in your country, your city, and your community. You are getting pure potable water by Room Temperature Evaporation: Simply at room temperature seawater evaporates pure water vapor, which is next collected in clouds, then clouds are moved towards land by wind, and eventually it rains forming rivers water, which is potable water. Then it would better for you and everyone else to imitate nature and do the same, if interested you can visit naturalseawaterdesalination.com
Published by Maher Louis, PE, PEng., Senior Process Engineer at Clairmonte Processes
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I remind all my colleagues that the open discussion refers solely to the production of demineralized water. Potable water production is a completely different topic.
Published by Mauro Gandola, OWNER of EGMA - STUDIO ASS.TO - TECHNOLOGICAL WATER SPECIALIST - SERVICE ONLINE
Potable water made from surface water is becoming more polluted. It contains what ever the rainwater comes in contact with that is soluble. Normal potable water treatment produces clean water from surface water however this water still contains a lot of contaminants. RO technology will remove a significant amount if not all of these organic compounds ensuring pesticides, hormones & other chemicals like aluminum silicates are removed. The link between health & diseases has been linked to water however if the problem is accumulative over a longer period it is not linked to water & possibly it should. I would rather drink water that contains no organics or colloids & I guess when people find out how much rubbish is still in the water after treatment there will be a demand for all surface water potable water system to employ RO.
Published by Karen Baker, Managing Director at Waterdoc Limited