Can electricity be used to purify water the same way boiling water does?
In: Physics
Heating kills bacteria. More heat evaporates the water, which can then be distilled to remove salts and other contaminants. Electricity, among other things, can heat the water.
Electricity can turn water into hydrogen and oxygen, which could then be explosively recombined into pure water. It is not cost effective at scale plus fairly dangerous.
Electrifying water does not kill bacteria except if it boils the water. Electricity kills vertebrates by interfering with their nervous system. Bacteria do not have a nervous system.
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