will reverse osmosis fitered water attack my fine china over time?
87783
I don't see why they would.  Reverse osmosis simply reverses the osmotic process of ions and impurities from diffusing into the water you drink and use.  If anything, they should help to prevent calcium ion buildup on the plates that happen over time, thereby helping to protect it.
115707
It depends on the pressure and temperature of the water so the previous answer is limited to only one condition.
1075246
Of course dude!! The water tastes cleaner with that. \nFeels like your drinkin' bottled water everyday..
298697
You Chinese? You swim...bring goods...sell...collect...swim back...Don't forget to swim back.
700454
One way to do that for relatively small volumes of water is to force the sea water through a special membrane filter under high pressure. The filter membrane must be constructed so that its holes are large enough to just pass a water molecule, but not large enough to pass metal\nmolecules, salt molecules, algae, etc. The result would be fresh clean water with a lot of brine solution left in the pressurized tank that needs to be dumped.\n\nAnother process which is more poractical for large volumes of fresh water production is electrolisis. In that process, electrical current is passed through the water to break it down into its basic elements such as hydrogen and oxygen (and all the other junk that is left over).\n\nOnce the hydrogen and oxygen are collected and recombined, the result is pure fresh water. Again, the vat or tank holding the original sea water now has a heavy brine solution which must be disposed of somehow. Most any use of sea water to produce fresh water will generate a lot of salty brine by-product that could poison sweet earth in the vicinity if it is merely dumped.
460809
If you own a single family (domestic) well, it is recommended that you test your water every three years for nitrates; more often if you live in an area with a history of high nitrate levels or if someone in your home is at risk from nitrate contamination. \n\n Reverse osmosis, ion exchange and distillation units could conceivably provide home treatment for removing nitrates from water, but those processes can be complicated, expensive, and generally require routine maintenance. Activated carbon and other simple filters do not remove nitrates to any significant degree. Home treatment units are generally not recommended, particularly as a permanent solution to assure nitrate-free water for infant use.
593150
This is what I would reccomend to install for "purified water" First a water softener followed by a commercial reverse osmosis unit...something scalable in case you need more capacity down the road. After the R.O. run it through an ultra-violet unit. this will kill any bacteria. At the bottling point, inject ozone with an ozinator to ensure that no bacterial growth will occor in the bottle. As long as the bottle is sealed, it is good for a couple years.
242792
It will, in my opinion, but you shouldn't worry about it because it'd take toooo many years to melt all those huge icebergs&co. Salt? Hmm...we'd never taste salt for quite a few years should they use it to stop the floods. What about icers? That shd work...
448160
sure. lots and lots of water. and piss it all out. go get cleaners from gnc or vitamin world... and clean out yoru system.
336765
I take it they won't allow you (for some unGodly reason) to tour your local water utility company, hence the reason for your question?? It's a shame but since that appears to be the case, i'll run it down for ya. All modern systems (unless designed by buffoons) are both, in series , parallel systems with built in redundencies to help isolate sectors with problems but yet still allow adequate & equal water distribution/pressure throughout; Why do you ask??
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Here's the story from Yahoo News about China:\n\n\nArtificial rain washes dust from Chinese capital Fri May 5, 5:25 AM ET\n \n\n\nBEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese technicians have artificially generated heavy rainfall to wash a layer of sand and dust off Beijing, the official Xinhua news agency said on Friday. \n \nThe Chinese capital was hit by a fierce wind storm last month which left the city cloaked in sand, much of it scooped up from the Gobi desert.\n\nThe Beijing Weather Modification Office responded Thursday with a major cloud seeding operation.\n\n"A total of 163 pieces of cigarette-like sticks containing silver iodide were burned and seven rocket shells were launched in six districts and counties, which resulted in the heaviest rainfall in Beijing this spring," Xinhua said.\n\nAlthough the science of weather seeding is controversial and some doubt its effectiveness, China often seeds clouds in an effort to end droughts in the arid north.
231116
Yes, currently the chinese govt manages a port on the West coast. Apprently its run quite efficiently.
860411
From How Stuff Works:\n\n"Reverse osmosis (RO) is used to reduce dissolved solids from feed waters with salinities up to 45,000 ppm TDS (total dissolved solids). Municipalities and industrial facilities are able to use RO permeate as a consistently pure drinking water supply and to transform drinking water to high purity water for industrial use at microelectronics, food and beverage, power, and pharmaceutical facilities. The technology is also very effective at removing bacteria, pyrogens, and organic contaminants."\n\nSo, I would think that it would be pretty good for you -- on the other hand, every brand of it that I have tried -- has given me digestive problems!! Go figure. I use just regular spring water or a filtered water from Brita or some such, myself.
1144911
China just had a major industrial accident involving a chemical spill into one of the major rivers.  But if you want to read about sad water pollution.. read up about the old mining operations in montanna and the current water pollution because of it.  look for Clark Fork River and Berkeley superfund cleanup... Acidic mine tailings in the water.
203278
It´s possible, first step is settle the water. Then water pass to biological treatment to low DQO. You could sell the oil to refinery and they cracking the mix again to break the chains into other materials.
931847
Nope.  Reverse osmosis membranes are generally not tolerant of chlorine.  You will need to dechlorinate or convert to Cl- which can be removed by reverse osmosis.
424179
Think about it this way, ten years ago, you wouldn't have been able to access the Internet in China.  Small steps.  Too much and China could collapse into another Russia.