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Why they should use seawater? Fresh water is not in shortage in this region - yearly precipitation significantly exceeds evaporation.

• onetimeuse92304 3y ago
  Please, take a look at the map. Even cursory inspection of it will reveal to you that Finland is the land of lakes. Finland has vast stores of fresh water and annual precipitation has nothing to do with it.
  • alright2565 3y ago
    They have a massive desalination and pipeline operation to create lakes throughout the country? Or is it the the sun and rain that created the lakes?
    • toivotuo 3y ago
      https://www.geographyrealm.com/finland-many-lakes/ https://www.geographyrealm.com/finland-many-lakes/ Thanks to the last ice age and retreating glaciers...
      • krisoft 3y ago
        Ice age and retreating glaciers created holes. And those holes filled up by the melt water of the glaciers. The fact that they are still full of water is due to them being replenished by precipitation more than they lose water. If they would lose more water then what flows into them we would be speaking about the "land of many bone dry holes" in the famous Finnish desert.
• BurningFrog 3y ago
  To a first approximation, Finland is on average a swamp. Thousands and thousands of lakes everywhere.
  • hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago
    The Finnish name for Finland, Suomi, literally means "Land of Swamps". And it is awesome here.
    • euroderf 3y ago
      That is one proposed etymology of "Suomi".
    • I_Am_Nous 3y ago
      It makes sense that Finns love rally so much then, if all the roads are weaving around swamps!
• Scoundreller 3y ago
  Slightly higher boiling point? Fewer antimicrobial additives required?