Icebergs for drinking water?

When pieces of glaciers break off and venture into open sea on their own, they are called icebergs.  While they are floating in a salty sea, icebergs and glaciers alike are made from frozen snow (or freshwater) meaning that it is drinkable water if melted.  Icebergs can range in size from a small car (growler) to a something larger than three football fields (very large).  Instead of wrecking ships or migrating southward to melt into the salty ocean, it has been proposed that icebergs should be utilized as a fresh drinking water supply.

The process isn't so straightforward and seems to mostly be a hypothesis at this point, but the idea has been floated (hehe, good pun!)  Icebergs could be wrapped in plastic to keep them from melting and somehow pushed/hauled/coaxed to an appropriate processing area.  It's something that companies are looking into further!

Article about icebergs for drinking water: http://www.freedrinkingwater.com/water_quality/quality1/13-08-icebergs-for-drinking-water.htm