Ben Who is proven correct.

[KabeRinnaul]

There's no observable reason, to the intellectually incurious, why water isn't being produced by the faucet.

Sadly, NotAlwaysRight shows us the evidence...

[Whiskey]

Technically they're right. We don't run out of water. We run out of drinkable water. Someone let me know how sea water tastes in coffee.

[Nurian]

Technically they're right. We don't run out of water. We run out of drinkable water. Someone let me know how sea water tastes in coffee.

Salty, I would imagine.

And death.

[lordlundar]

Salty, I would imagine.

And death.

It's partially not the water itself that kills you, but the fact that because of the high salt content, you get more dehydrated from drinking it than you were before. That forces you to drink more to try and rehydrate yourself, and you literally drink yourself to dehydration.

[Chromatix]

Well, there are relatively cheap ways of filtering and sterilising water on a personal or household scale. The ocean is full of water that is normally suitable for those methods. So I'm not concerned about water shortages on a global scale.

Shortages do occur on a local basis, but that's due to insufficient infrastructure.

[PepperElf]

can't tell you what salt-water coffee tastes like (my navy ships at least filtered the salt out of the seawater)

but i can tell you what Fuel-Water tastes like... yeah. my second ship fucked up and got fuel into the potable water system. =/