ProtectOurFreedom wrote: “I tend to prefer nature’s distillation cycle. It’s very old and well proven.”
What we think of as ‘pure’ water has been recycled millions of times. Every glass of water you drink contains water that was once Napoleon’s urine.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/is-horse-so-bad-we-all-drink-napoleons-urine-gknc50mms7c
In the same vein, I remember in one of my mechanical engineering courses we had to calculate the number of air molecules breathed by Jesus in each breath you take. It was a fascinating problem (and you can find solutions to it all over the web today, unlike in 1972).