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about seven hundred and eighty million people around the world do not even have
access to clean drinking water according to a u_n_ report from last year
one question that often comes up is why can't we remove salt from allusion water
because of course of overwhelming majority did not upper nineties percent
of uh... the water on earth is not drinkable because it is saltwater and
it's considered a very very costly process typically to i_d_ salad water
isn t cell in a pretty sela nice
ability stalin eight
is alan a catholic but but it is of course the salad is a shed mechanism
uh... what was that in time
i think it's def our nation may have anyone wants to love the stuff i think
you'll find them right we did look it up and it's a d desalinization but i know
what were your lab
we now have at lockheed lockheed-martin corporation
a traditionally considered a weapons manufacture
which is developing a new technology which could solve the water problem they
have been developing a process which is basically offended carbon membrane with
with basically regular holes in it there and then a meter in size that uh... is a
billion of a meter louis which actually are uh... did this hensley worked like a
sieve and you can just sit l the cell essentially is what you can do and if
this technology can be developed one of the issues right now is that these
membranes are so delicate that even working with an makes them likely to
tear and you don't even get to the point of human being able to employ them this
could be a huge break through and the removal of of salt from ocean water
which some say could solve the drinking water problem
yeah it uh... it's a step in the right direction of course is a lot of
questions as to
or how do you prompted to people and landed right and uh...
you know who's gonna find these plants and where they're gonna be placed on the
funny thing is interesting do you care at all that that this is lockheed
electives manufacture
that is working on this would you rather it be a different company or would you
rather to solve the problem
well we've talked about his path
for i mean it seems like
the companies that we don't want involved in projects like this
unfortunately are ones that have the resources to do it
um... so you know i can't think off-hand how this is going to uh... you know
create more weapons that are gonna kill people descriptor sbi
something that they see as a huge profit maker tonight and good for them if if
they can pull it off
the dentist something good gathers very views on that but i think it's
interesting technology nonetheless and we also need better technology for
reusing wastewater i'm turning that into water that that is drinkable right