Could these be removed via evaporative distillation?
I’m aware the treatment plants don’t distill water, but it could be useful on the personal level. I could probably distill 20 gallons a day without much draw on the solar production.
That’s about the only way to do it. Then you’d have to add the minerals, etc that would be missing from it.
RO can’t do it?
Not to mention the astronomical amount of energy required to do that. Boiling water is insanely energy intensive at scale you would basically need to dedicate nuclear power plants to treatment facilities
Not with a solar still. I mean sure it requires a lot of energy, but that energy is “free” for all intents and purposes
Certainly not free to build though
Sure but you’re going to have fairly Limited flow rate or need an astronomically expensive solar still to be able to do the kind of volume at treatment plant needs to be able to do