# Making fresh water out of salt water; Week number 73-19

Making fresh water out of salt water; Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.; A factory on St. Maarten makes drinking water from sea water because the growing tourism has caused the water usage to increase. After the desalination the drinking water is stored in big tanks. The factory was built by a German company.

- Kind: Short
- Year: 1973
- Runtime: 1 min
- By: Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zoetwater_uit_zeewater-Making_fresh_water_out_of_salt_water-521053.ogv)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-SA 3.0 nl](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/nl/deed.en) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/commons/45501016?play=1)