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Well the problem is just as the OP says: human cells have a low salinity.
Well, to be fair they are talking about sea water, which has an approximate average salinity of 35g/L [1].
-- so it's not an inevitable design constraint that our internal salinity is less than that of the ocean.
They can't stand the chemical environment -- pH, poisons, salinity.
It has been posited in the press and in movies, that a warmer earth would melt the poles which would reduce salinity and then 'stop' the flow of the Gulf Stream current.
The macro mechanics of the oceans depend intimately on salinity.
Mexico has threatened to take the US to international court over the salinity of the Colorado River.
Light will take a curved path through a tank of salt water, because the salinity, and through that the index of refraction, will not be constant but will be a continuous function of the depth.
Desalination also gives you the option to have much lower salinity than river water which should allow areas like California to cope with this issue.
Not quite, Jud did a ecological survey in 2011 and followed-up with experimental tests of the ability of Lionfish to tolerate a range of salinity.
Unless I'm mistaken, water poisoning is only a credible threat when you consume exclusively those high volumes of water and nothing else to raise the salinity of the water in and around your cells.
It seems like you could easily solve the salt problem every time it clogs up just by putting a lid on the jar, shaking it up a bunch to re-dissolve the salts in liquid and then add new liquid into keep the overall salinity down.
Editor's summary from the Nature journal:Geologists and oceanographers generally have to rely on indirect evidence from the analysis of solid materials in deep sediment cores when estimating temperature and salinity levels of the ancient oceans.