Just dig a well.
Or grab some ocean water and filter it.
Then build a big pipe.
Problem could be solved worldwide in less than 10 years.
But then what?
You can build a simple desalinator (aka, a solar still) with a couple bins, some glass/plexiglass, and access to sunlight. Preferably in an enclosed system to better contain heat and prevent water vapor from escaping.
No filters to replace, and it will run for as long as you feed it water.
Where do you put the left over salt? At those levels it’s both toxic for animals and toxic for plants.
Even putting it back into the ocean isn’t simple. If you do it in one big batch, you would kill everything in that location for a while. If you do it slowly, that isn’t simple.
Make margaritas. Put some on your steak. Throw the rest back in the ocean if you want.
We're talking, maybe a couple pounds of salt per person per day. It's not an unmanageable amount.
You're not going to hurt the ocean by adding back a little salt - salt that you took out of it...
Yes, you will most likely affect cultures within the immediate vicinity of a salt dump site but they will regrow elsewhere. It's peanuts compared to the amount of dilution being caused all the time by normal freshwater runoff and ice cap melts.
It'll add some minor noise but if you suspect it to be at significant factor you can effectively completely eliminate the noise by picking the lowest values over multiple runs. Something like mtr will report jitter statistics for you.
Because china.
Things used to be good 20 or 30 years ago. Then china started in with all that cheap crap.
Same shit going on with India in the software space. Just look at oracle. Tot shit.
Not every customer can assess the quality of a product. I can judge the quality of a violin, but I can't tell you how long the compressor in a refrigerator will last.
This is why the only signal that customers used to have got removed - a refrigerator that had the same design and components for twenty years is likely well made (if it weren’t people would have found out or changed the parts).
But these are rare (one of the few I know of is Speed Queen but I suspect there are others in other industries, mainly commercial/industrial products).
Amusingly enough these work best when innovation is basically dead, so that a new one and a twenty year old one is basically the same.
Except being made well isn't the only criteria. From what I understand, speed queen uses so much water compared to a more modern machine that you could buy a new machine on the cost savings.
There are a multitude of reasons, companies no longer make products to last. Watch videos where they dissect products, you'll find machines are designed to fail after a certain amount of time. Motors that only contain a certain amount of oil and cannot be serviced.
