Abstract: The method of providing fresh water to a delivery point or points associated with land, that includes providing on a seagoing vessel a desalination plant, and providing a fresh water container configured for transport in a sea water body, the container characterized as bodily expandable and collapsible; operating the plant to provide fresh water for discharge into the container adjacent the vessel, and allowing container responsive bodily expansion, transporting the container on the sea water body, directionally away from the vessel and to a location or locations for fresh water delivery from the container to a delivery point or points, and discharging fresh water from the container to a point, in conjunction with at least partial bodily collapse of the container.

Abstract: Methods and containers for preserving a product such as a respiratory product having an internal vapor pressure. The product is placed into an enclosure, and the enclosure is sealed and pressured with appropriately humidified air or other suitable oxygen containing gas to a positive pressure with respect to ambient pressure to provide a vapor pressure greater than or at least equal to the internal vapor pressure of the product. The volume of the product in relation to the volume of the enclosure and the pressure are such that the enclosure has free air space sufficient to prevent the onset of an anaerobic condition for substantially the storage period of the product assuming the enclosure is maintained approximately at a predetermined temperature.