Fresh Water

[j.sabourn]

At least there seems. One thing the scientists who give us the history of the earth seem to agree among themselves is that at one time the earth was all water , don’t think they can be wise to the density of such however. Therefore all life came from the sea and evolved in to what we have today and is still evolving , this can be seen even in our lifetime by the larger species of humankind today, one of the earliest forms of life was supposedly bird life. Hard to imagine our ancestors were such millions of years ago. Also the climate has changed numerous times and is constantly doing so, so to get their knickers in a twist beats me. Their is plenty of animal life yet to evolve to replace the human kind when they have stuffed up. JS

[Tony Taylor]

At least there seems. One thing the scientists who give us the history of the earth seem to agree among themselves is that at one time the earth was all water , don’t think they can be wise to the density of such however. Therefore all life came from the sea and evolved in to what we have today and is still evolving , this can be seen even in our lifetime by the larger species of humankind today, one of the earliest forms of life was supposedly bird life. Hard to imagine our ancestors were such millions of years ago. Also the climate has changed numerous times and is constantly doing so, so to get their knickers in a twist beats me. Their is plenty of animal life yet to evolve to replace the human kind when they have stuffed up. JS

HA HA John, I thought birds evolved from flying reptiles, over the years I have come across a few "reptiles", disguised as humans.

[Ken Norton]

It would require that purity of the water for the boilers, anything over 2-3ppm we would dump into the domestic tanks, if it went over 9-10 it would be dumped to bilges.

That was fine as long as the valves were changed over to the respective tanks Tony, I remember on one ship U.M.S that the upper scale alarm was being used until the vap settled down but the valves had not been switched resulting in the distilled water becoming contaminated and having to be dumped to bilge. Chief was not amused. Memory a bit rusty now but I think there were two settings on the alarm one for distilled and one for domestic?

[j.sabourn]

#50 Some don’t even bother to disguise it , are too powerful and think they are untouchable. How wrong can they be ? Some of those are even in prison and still. Accessible to others as has been shown in recent news from the media. Cheers JS .

[Tony Taylor]

That was fine as long as the valves were changed over to the respective tanks Tony, I remember on one ship U.M.S that the upper scale alarm was being used until the vap settled down but the valves had not been switched resulting in the distilled water becoming contaminated and having to be dumped to bilge. Chief was not amused. Memory a bit rusty now but I think there were two settings on the alarm one for distilled and one for domestic?

Ken,
my memory is the same, but I believe you are right, two alarms but I think both were solenoid valves to dump; I think we had to open approropriate valves by hand. Most of the time I was on older "handomatic" jobs.

[Ken Norton]

Ken,
my memory is the same, but I believe you are right, two alarms but I think both were solenoid valves to dump; I think we had to open approropriate valves by hand. Most of the time I was on older "handomatic" jobs.

Yes as I only handomatic Tony, no such luxury as automatic solenoid fail safes. Human error and big bol####ings unfortunately. Happy days

[Shaun Gander]

California is desperate for water. We've just had some huge storms with ? billions of gallons of rain fail and it all just went out to sea because there is no infrastructure to collect it

SDG

[happy daze john in oz]

California is desperate for water. We've just had some huge storms with ? billions of gallons of rain fail and it all just went out to sea because there is no infrastructure to collect it

SDG

Welcome to the club mate, same problem here in Queensland of late. Records rainfall all out to sea as no effort is ever made to harvest it.

[happy daze john in oz]

Back in the 80's the feral gov at that time said we should plant 1 billion trees to help the atmosphere.
We started but some how along the way things just came to a stand still.
We still do plant but no where near as many as we should.

[Keith at Tregenna]

California is desperate for water. We've just had some huge storms with ? billions of gallons of rain fail and it all just went out to sea because there is no infrastructure to collect it

SDG

Certainly, gives some food for thought.

K.