Really, you don't see that an engineer has already:
I think public water companies could actually achieve good conservation by using a progression pricing scheme in which the amount I pay increases marginally for each additional increment of water I use. This will ensure cheap water for the bare essentials while charging significantly more for large volume users.
What are the energy costs of boiling enough water for an individual to drink for one day? It's far higher than getting it from the tap and will continue to be that way for a long time thanks to douchebag engineers.
Your estimate of energy scaling is thermodynamically incorrect. Enthalpy is a state function, so the amount of energy required is linear in the amount of water boiled. In reality, it will be worse than that as losses will increase with pot size. If you're talking about building an efficient process to distill water rather than simply putting a cauldron over a fire pit, you'll probably want to give me a call. In any case, wood isn't free either. You also have to catch the distillate in a clean container and so on. Or were you really planning to just boil sea water then drink it? If so, you'll be disappointed to know that the salt will still be there after you boil it.
You grossly overestimate the difference between purified water and drinkable water. You can drink water that you put through a filter as you described, but you will quickly become very ill, possibly to the point of dying. I don't consider that "drinkable" water, but you are obviously free to disagree with me. If it were that easy, don't you think drinking water would be produced that way rather than going through the insane measures taken to purify it? Do you think engineers just sit around dreaming up ways to make processes more expensive?
You purchase enthalpy from companies in the form of electricity or natural gas. Your stove simply changes the inputs you buy into energy which is input into the water to boil it. And no, you can't get wood for free - at least not enough to live on indefinitely. Wood grows on land. Land is property. If someone comes into my yard and starts cutting trees down to light fires, we're going to have problems. Simply because this isn't a course on thermodynamics does not mean your ideas can defy the laws of thermodynamics: you'll find that those laws apply whether or not you think they apply to you.
That could be because you're contributing horse shit. I'm simply confident enough to call you out on it because I've spent my entire adult life studying such things and can unequivocally say when you're wrong. You're entitled to your opinion, but I'm entitled to point out when your opinion is at odds with reality. One day you'll wake up and realize that you don't know everything and that some people actually know things about certain topics. Some people (myself included) write theses on various water technologies. Some people spend their entire lives devising improved water production methods. I got out of the water business because onerous regulations reduced my research experience to filling out mountains of paperwork. Then you come in here with a full head of steam and little else thinking you have the answers to all of the world's problems. Sorry that calling your bluff ruined your self esteem, but I don't think that esteem was in any way warranted to begin with. You retorted with childish insults and swearing in lieu of any arguments - a great way to prove my point.
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