Suggestion for the Water Crisis

[lowenquicksilver]

IDK if this thread is in the right place or not. anyway

As some may know there are over a billion people without safe drinking water, and there are towns who don't know what to do with excess snow. Can the west, Europe and the UK just convert the snow into safe water?

[Matt]

That's actually quite a good idea

Some parts of the world get so much snow and to convert that into fresh water would just be incredible, I'm not sure how they could do that though

[Emerald]

We get so much rainfall while other parts of the world are crying out for it.

[Vincent Van Ghoul]

Snow is already fresh water, perfectly safe to consume on its own after falling from the sky.

But the logistics in first melting, then transporting them to drought stricken regions is unrealistic.

First thing would be to gather the snow, and depending on where it falls, that would increase the risk of the snow itself gathering up bacteria from landing, to melting, and finally during transport.
Another problem, is that short of mountaineous regions, and countries within the arctic circle, snowfall is not a year long occurence, and even within the winter months are unpredictable. No month would offer a guaranteed quantity of snow to produce water from.

A solution for these problems might be setting up facilities to collect snow from regular sources within the arctic circle, purifying them, and bottling them for shipment ease.
But then again, mineral bottled water is already a thing. The reason those aren't given to drought stricken nations are mainly financial; They can't afford to buy bottled import water, and no company would give away that much water for free, especially if so much effort is involved (converting snow to water, instead of simply gathering mineral water).

At the end of the day, this would also only be a short term, and very unreliable source of water for exposed people. Personally I think we'd be better off investing in the areas without easy access to water; provide water treatment plants, specially designed straws, dig new wells etc.

[Matt]

Apr 10, 2016 9:17:16 GMT -6 Emerald said:

We get so much rainfall while other parts of the world are crying out for it.

It's unfortunate that some parts of the world get so much rain that they get extreme devastating flooding yet other parts are in extreme drought