Is there anything new regarding portable desalination plants?
I’m planning a long paddling trip and cannot possibly carry enough fresh water. John in New Zealand Jonathan’s Answer: Hi John: I’m very familiar with your predicament, since much of my home paddling territory, Baja’s Sea of Cortez, gets less than six inches of rain per year. For a ten- or twelve-day trip, I’ll often load 100 pounds of water in the boat before anything else goes in. So I’ve long searched for an alternative. Jonathan Hanson Jonathan Hanson Jonathan Hanson is a writer whose lifelong appreciation of nature shows up frequently in his work. Ask Jonathan a question –>Meet Jonathan Previous Answers The ultimate irony of paddling desert coastlines is that you’re floating on billions of gallons of water that you can’t drink. There are ways of removing the dissolved salts from ocean water, but unfortunately no one has invented a magic pill that you can just drop in your canteen. The most sophisticated desalination system is a reverse osmosis pump, such as those made by Recovery
