If the sea gets dirty enough...?

Question

We all know how the evaporation cycle works, right? well, what if the sea water around the world were to get polluted enough, and that polluted water gets evaporated, would that mean the rain itself would be polluted in the sky? if thats the case, the dirty rain would fall to our fresh water lakes and rivers and creeks and be unsafe to drink. People in America don't want to pay more taxes for a freshwater plant, so they'll drink it as is. One day, would so many people be drinking contaminated water, they and animals around will start to die? What about countries around the world who don't have bottled water and have to drink straight out of the river? Will polluted sea water eventually turn to polluted fresh water?

Answer 1

i think the sea water is alrady polluted. when it rains the water isn't excatly clean anyway. it has to seep underground, go through  miles of filters, and then we drink it.

Answer 2

no. when water evaporates, it leaves all the stuff disolved in it behind, unless the stuff disolved in it has the same evaporation point as water. if you want to see for yourself, take a cup, fill it with water, and mix it with salt. then let it sit in the sun for a couple of days. the salt should be left behind and the water should be gone. you could speed up this process by boiling the water.

Answer 3

no because when the water evaporates, only water goes up, not the pollution. it would never ever rain polluted water, which is a good thing because then we can still have water even if the sea is polluted.

Answer 4

Come on . The oceans are as salty as it will ever be . The part about the rain being polluted is very bad . When water evaporates all that goes up is water vapor. GOD new what he was doing.

Answer 5

Most pollutants in water are too heavy to evaporate.  Other things do contaminate rain, pollutants from smokestacks rise into the atmosphere and then fall with rain -- something we knew as "acid rain" in the US.  The acid rain did indeed contaminate freshwater lakes and streams, particularly in the Northeast.

Other drinking water pollutants are from landfills, point and nonpoint water pollution, and just generally bad management of waste.  Fresh water is a very, very important natural resource and every effort must be made to keep it clean!