Row, Row, Row, Your Own Boat

I was listening to someone speak about the accomplishments of man. One of these accomplishments spoken of, was the production of sweet drinkable water taken from our salty ocean.

More than 60 years ago, after listening to a lecture from an Arctic explorer who explained that he obtained drinking water from melted ice, an Israeli engineer named Alexander Zarchin created a groundbreaking thermal desalination process. In the early 1960s, he founded IDE Technologies, which, according to its website, specializes in the development, engineering, construction and operation of enhanced desalination and...