Can desalinated seawater be drunk?

As we all know, seawater cannot be drunk directly, so drinking water will become a big problem for people who live on the sea for a long time. In addition, for people living by the sea, they need to pay attention to solving the fresh water problem. Not only can seawater not be drunk, but it cannot be used for bathing, etc. Now there are special seawater desalination machines, and you can bathe in desalinated seawater. So can the desalinated seawater be drunk directly?

Can desalinated seawater be drunk?

People still have many doubts about whether desalinated seawater is really drinkable. Some people think that desalinated water cannot be drunk, or that long-term drinking of desalinated water will be harmful to the body, so it cannot be drunk with confidence. The following editor will explain to you whether the treated water can be drunk.

When seawater desalination was first developed, due to the immature desalination technology in China, it was easy to remove all the trace elements and beneficial minerals in the water that were harmful to the human body when desalinating the seawater. The final water produced was pure water. Although the water is clean, is the purer the better? The answer is NO! Water that contains a certain degree of hardness, minerals and is slightly alkaline is beneficial to the growth, development and health of animals and humans. If you drink purified water for a long time, it will accelerate the loss of minerals and other nutrients in the body, and will have slow and potential negative physiological effects on human health and physiological functions.

But now, China's seawater desalination technology has become mature, and seawater utilization has become an important part of marine development in the 21st century. Currently, there are nearly 30,000 desalination plants in more than 130 countries around the world, producing nearly 60 million cubic meters of water every day, and 90% of this water is used for drinking water. In the country, great progress has been made in testing technology, standard setting and pipeline network construction. On the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the State Oceanic Administration, Lei Bo, executive vice president and secretary general of the Chinese Society of Oceanography, and other experts answered people's questions about the safety of drinking desalinated seawater when participating in the "Scientists and Media Face to Face" event of the China Association for Science and Technology. "After mineralization, desalinated water can fully meet the various minerals and nutrients needed by the human body and can be safely drunk."

So what is healthy water?

1. Non-toxic, harmless, odorless and free of chemical pollution;

Second, it should be able to meet the supply standard of water for human nutrition and physiological functions, and drinking water should contain appropriate amount of minerals;

3. No degradation, i.e., vibrant water;

This is the end of the introduction on whether desalinated seawater can really be used as drinking water. Freshwater is the source of life, but freshwater resources are limited and are not inexhaustible. As freshwater resources become increasingly scarce, using desalinated seawater as drinking water is bound to become a trend.

Water is the source of all life. Fresh water resources that can be drunk directly are not inexhaustible. In the future, using desalinated seawater as drinking water has become a trend. The ultimate goal is not just to change the public's mindset about desalination of seawater to make them accept it, but to ask everyone to protect water resources.