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The quality (and taste) of water from desalination plants may vary depending on the method used to desalinate the sea water.

On nuclear carriers, they just evaporate the water using heat from the reactor, then gather the steam and condense that into pure h2o. As such, the water should taste of nothing.

Some commercial plants use membranes and reverse osmosis to filter out the salt and other impurities from seawater without having to evaporate (boil) it. This method would be cheaper, but the purity of the water won't match water produced from evaporation, which may explain the bad taste.

asif iqbal said:

Your the sailor popeye if you it's good enough is good enough

My experience with desalinated water is from Qatar, Dubai and Abu Dhabi it comes from these huge desalination plants sucking up water from sea it's horrible to skin the hair and tastes crap but then again I am use to highland spring the best Scottish water there is!

Maybe warships add additives to the water to make it taste better

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You haven't tasted water (well, "taste" is a bad word to use) until you have tried Vancouver water.

plawolf said:

The quality (and taste) of water from desalination plants may vary depending on the method used to desalinate the sea water.

On nuclear carriers, they just evaporate the water using heat from the reactor, then gather the steam and condense that into pure h2o. As such, the water should taste of nothing.

Some commercial plants use membranes and reverse osmosis to filter out the salt and other impurities from seawater without having to evaporate (boil) it. This method would be cheaper, but the purity of the water won't match water produced from evaporation, which may explain the bad taste.

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The carriers probably either need to boil the water or to put chlorine in it in order to keep it sanitized for long-term storage; diesel powered ships, however, would find that evaporating water would be quite debilitating in terms of power usage.

SinoSoldier said:

The carriers probably either need to boil the water or to put chlorine in it in order to keep it sanitized for long-term storage; diesel powered ships, however, would find that evaporating water would be quite debilitating in terms of power usage.

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Nope.. please read the links provided.

asif iqbal said:

Your the sailor popeye if you it's good enough is good enough

My experience with desalinated water is from Qatar, Dubai and Abu Dhabi it comes from these huge desalination plants sucking up water from sea it's horrible to skin the hair and tastes crap but then again I am use to highland spring the best Scottish water there is!

Maybe warships add additives to the water to make it taste better

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The USN uses salt water evaporators aboard ship. Which may account a better grade/taste of water.





Edit.. When I was stationed on Diego Garcia in the mid 80s our fresh water came from evaporators not a desalination plant. It tasted ok to me if memory servers me correctly.

bd popeye said:

Edit.. When I was stationed on Diego Garcia in the mid 80s our fresh water came from evaporators not a desalination plant. It tasted ok to me if memory servers me correctly.

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I think that drinking water is not pure H2O, and pure H2O water from evaporators would taste weird to drink. Any chemist in our forum to explain this?

SteelBird said:

I think that drinking water is not pure H2O, and pure H2O water from evaporators would taste weird to drink. Any chemist in our forum to explain this?

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I hope you are not calling me a liar. Sometimes I feel you gents have no respect for my knowledge and experience serving with the USN. So be it.

I don't need any chemist to tell me what water on a CV taste like. It taste like water. No weird taste at all. sometimes on the JFK and Hancock JP5 would seep in the water.

I was there, you fellows were not. I know what the water on a ship taste like. It is that simple Jeez.

I apologize for getting so worked up over a trivial mater but..never mind.

I'm out.

bd popeye said:

I hope you are not calling me a liar. Sometimes I feel you gents have no respect for my knowledge and experience serving with the USN. So be it.

I don't need any chemist to tell me what water on a CV taste like. It taste like water. No weird taste at all. sometimes on the JFK and Hancock JP5 would seep in the water.

I was there, you fellows were not. I know what the water on a ship taste like. It is that simple Jeez.

I apologize for getting so worked up over a trivial mater but..never mind.

I'm out.

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I'm sorry Popeye if I offended you. I just spoke my feeling because natural water is never pure H2O. They mix with this or that which I don't know (that's why I asked if some chemist or someone who knows chemistry could explain what are inside water). For so, I think that when water is pure H2O, it would taste different from normal drinking water.

Distilled water taste just like regular water, A few of the top Bottled water brands use distillation as there main filtration method. Smart Water, Desani just to name two off the top of my head a small amount of minerals are added after Distillation.

bd popeye said:

Thanks gents for your responses.



Bltizo. Thanks for your comments. The original Chinese captions mention water and this photo IMO shows water being transfered.

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Could it be incorrectly reported? A gallery on Xinhua only details fuel oil and dry cargo.

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Also, some UNREP pics courtesy of Jeffhead show the same position for fueling on 170 and 171 using the same type of black hoses. Or if we're referring to what appears to be two white hoses in Popeye's pic, could it be possible that Qiandaohu also produces fresh water and its merely topping off the other ships not out of necessity but to help all the other ships restock faster?

SteelBird said:

I'm sorry Popeye if I offended you. I just spoke my feeling because natural water is never pure H2O. They mix with this or that which I don't know (that's why I asked if some chemist or someone who knows chemistry could explain what are inside water). For so, I think that when water is pure H2O, it would taste different from normal drinking water.

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I've tasted freshly distilled water. I honestly cannot tell a difference between distilled water and bottled water. And when I say "freshly distilled water", I mean directly out of a distillation flask and a condenser and straight into a collection flask. And I drank it on the spot. fresh! A few perks of working in a lab... I can't taste any difference. And my dad actually once tried to use distilled water to brew tea since he heard from someone that it tastes better. He too cannot taste any difference. Any distillation equipment, be it big or small, work the same. You boil the "dirty" water and H2O vapor evaporate into a condenser, which is then collected. You will get H2O and nothing else in the collection container via this process because everything has its own boiling point. All those minerals will not turn to vapor at the same temperature as H2O, thus cannot be collected. You get 100% H2O. This is of course assuming you don't have anything contaminating the condenser and/or the collecting equipment...

Tap water tastes differently depending on location. I know water in Houston tastes differently than in Austin, Dallas or College Station.