CNN CNN Newsroom With Carol Costello April 2, 2015 13:25:00
So the pacific ocean is out there. is there any way to take the salt from the water and use it for drinking water? >> certainly there is. it's very cost prohibitive because it takes a lot of power to do it. to steam that water to make it distilled water takes a lot of energy. energy that we just haven't put -- now there's ways to do it solar. that would be a very large con continue tan ner -- container. the earth evaporates the water out of ocean, makes it rain makes it fall. we just can't get the rain to fall where we need it carol. >> all right. chad myers, thanks so much. we appreciate it. ...