Yes that is right.
In this case; if the port don’t want the water you offer, pump it overboard and start making new for the next port.
If they can’t put it into the city supply until the analysis is done, do it the Singapore way;
No really although oz does have more stored water than it knows what to do with in one part of the country and short elsewhere.
Just got to build a pipe
I dont think Singapore is ever going to be self supplied with water without massive energy intensive de salination
Yes either that, or move people who are “trying to sustain life where it shouldn’t be”.
Like California raising watermelons in the desert and Arizona planting thousands of acres of nut orchards. Absolutely insane but profit beats reason every day.
I was talking about using the water received from ships for industrial purposes, just like much of the “recirculated” water in Singapore.
Alternatively; pump it to a reservoir where it gets mixed with raw water and goes through a treatment plant before being distributed to the public. (which is done with some of it)
BTW; Water made by using waste heat,(evaporation) is too “pure and tasteless” to be used directly as drinking water. Additives are needed:
PS> Water produced by reversed osmosis has another problem as well; bacteria.
Since it has not been heated it needs to go through an infrared filter to be safe for drinking
I remember porting in Pago Pago during the "rainy season. Cloudy and drizzly the four days we were there. On the return trip from Antarctica, it was the “dry season” and there was talk of using our evaporators to make them some fresh water.
May be You should consider teaching them how ta catch and collect rain water for dry times??
cheers
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Hope reviving this 1 1/2-year old thread doesn’t upset anybody.
Here is a plan that could be the answer for many places with water supply issues:
PS: SoCal comes to mind as a region were this could be an option.
Reducing the environmental footprint by burning fossil fuel to Import water to raise almonds and watermelons in the desert.
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Why not first stop blowing up existing dams?
You don’t have to burn fossil fuel to desalinate saltwater and produce drinkable water. If the FSU is moored to an SBM it can be supplied with “green” electric power via cable from shore, or from OWFs in the vicinity.
Water produced onboard a FSU in US territorial waters or EEZ and piped ashore for use by US consumers are “imported”?
Does the same apply to oil & gas produced offshore?
The fact that the concept are developed by foreign companies doesn’t mean that a FSU operating in US waters HAVE to be foreign built/owned/operated/crewed or flagged, if that is the worry.
PS: Most of the deepwater rigs working in the GoM are foreigned built, owned and flagged, but operated and crewed US.
WTF has the origin of the water or the registry of its transport have to do with shipping it to raise luxury foods in a desert next to a population center experiencing a water shortage?
The only population centres in modern nations that experience water shortages are those with criminally culpable governments. Start there.
Some can smell politics here. His majesty Cpt John K. government high priest may not like it. 
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No politics needed if we consider California is currently the ONLY US state considered 100% drought free according to the US Drought Monitor. So is there actually any city experiencing a water shortage? And presumably no need to import water but certainly a need to conserve existing water storages and expand capacity to cope with population growth … or at least those not sensibly fleeing tyranny.
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Sorry, I didn’t realize that your beef was only with the usage of the water, not with how and where it will be produced.
In this case water is produced by reverse osmosis on a stationary FSU in nearshore waters anywhere in the world suffering water shortage, whether long or short term.
PS: I mentioned SoCal because water shortage problem there have been in the news not so long ago.
if there is no water dont live there, its not a place for humans
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There is a difference between “no water” and “water shortage”
Whether the shortage is short term or long term, caused by natural phenomena or man made, does matter.
There are also cases where water shortage is caused by political differences, like in Hong Kong in the late 1960s,(during the Cultural Revolution) when China threatened to shut down water supplies to put pressure the British Colonial Authorities:
PS: During a severe drought in 1963, tankers were used to supply water to HK for the first time:
Source: https://industrialhistoryhk.org/hong-kong-water-supply-the-1963-water-famine/
BTW: The linked article was about developing a floating and mobile desalination plant for use wherever there are shortage of potable water and close to the ocean.
The bit about SoCal was a PS I added on, not part of the article.
The California water system handles about fifty cubic kilometers or 40 MAF (million acre-feet) every year. A very small fraction of that is from desalination.