Originally Posted by wabigoon
Seriously, it seems I recall that Midway atoll was dependent on desalinized seawater.
As has been stated, sailors must have gotten along drinking it.
In the days of sails, a lot of sailors got by drinking rain water. Granted, it would have been far less polluted way out there in the ocean.


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