Have you ever wondered how much salt is really in the ocean? Well, scientists have determined that for every 1,000 grams of ocean water there are 35 grams of salt and 965 grams of water. The sea water is so salty that if you were to drink it with no clean water for a few days or even weeks you would get very dehydrated and die if you didn't get any fresh water.
Your kidneys remove extra salt and water from your blood and keep the elements of your blood at very specific levels. If you drank just 1 liter of ocean water you would have to drink 3 liters of fresh water to keep from getting dehydrated and to flush out all of the salt from your kidneys.
Is all of the ocean salty? No. The ocean near South America has fresh water were the Amazon River drains into the ocean.You can get fresh water for up to 100 miles from the coastline.
Some scientists thought that if they used tugboats to tow a 10 mile iceberg to LosAngeles from Antarctica they could use it for drinking water. Even though it would lose half of its bulk,it would water the city for at least 1 month but they never ended up doing this. Can you guess why?
