Water Water Everywhere

And not a drop to drink.

Although there are other high ranking problems about the planet right now, it seems like two of the really big ones are:

• The oceans are rising, which means there is too much water in the oceans.
• There is too much drought around the world, which means that there's not enough water on the land.

Hmmm.  Too much water in the ocean...not enough water on the land.  It seems if we could figure out an elegant solution to water desalination, we could work our way out of a couple of the major problems facing humanity.

Of course there are brilliant minds working on that very project.  Actually, I think the Romans tried but they finally gave up.  There are methods for desalinization (in Australia and the Middle East for example) already in existence.  The problem is that so far we have only come up with very expensive complicated ways for this to happen.  

It seems to me that with seven billion people, we can probably figure out a better solution.  I have a hunch that there's a better way.  It seems like if you have access to the ocean, you should also have access to potable water.  Think of how it would change the world if we could come up with something that is so elegant that even poor communities could benefit.  

Tomorrow I will give you an example of the kind of thing I'm thinking of, but that probably doesn't really work.  I would be happy to have a guest post with any desalinization ideas.

I just have a hunch that we can do it.  Think about it.  Tell other people to think about it.  

Thanks.