Maylyn Liu Shree Ramamoorthy

1st period

Bodies of Salt Water

What are main bodies of saltwater?● All oceans are bodies

of salt water

● A freshwater ocean does not exist

● 97% saltwater

Which body of water contains the highest salt

Content? ● The Dead Sea● 33.7% salinity ● bacteria flourish

there

What is desalination?

1. Collect ocean water

2. Pretreatment

3. Remove salt through reverse osmosis

4. Conditioning and disinfection

5. Distribute freshwater

● Most expensive form of freshwater

● Process of removing salt

Is the Arctic ocean a body of saltwater? ● Arctic contains both salt and

freshwater, but it officially considered saltwater

● No separation = salinity

● Glaciers = provide some freshwater

● Areas with many glaciers have a layer of freshwater due to melted glaciers and a bottom layer of saltwater

Sources http://assets.inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2013/12/water-ocean-537x402.jpg

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http://arcticintegratedservices.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/big_arctic_iceberg-wide4.jpg

http://muftah.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Dead-Sea.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/yl9dzNj.jpg

http://thecsrjournal.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/desal-process-3.jpg

http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/plastic-water-bottle-281x360.jpg

http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/150195/

https://www.card-arctic.ca/cms_content/images/bg.jpg

http://www.biodiversity.uoguelph.ca/