#WATWB: Kenya Installs First Solar-Powered Plant That Turns Salty Ocean Water Into Fresh Drinking Water

It is said that up to 71% of our planet is covered with water. We are inhabiting the only planet in a radius of several thousand light years that has consistently enough water to support life. However, this is also the same the planet in which, according to CDC, an estimated 780 million people (almost 11% of the world population) do not have clean drinking water.

It can be argued that most of the earth’s water (about 96.5%) are held by the oceans and is therefore too salty and unsafe to drink. Drinkable water has been estimated to make up about 2.5% of all earth’s water. Some of this quantity is trapped under glaciers and snowfields, leaving only 1% of earth’s freshwater accessible. In essence, [less than] 0.007 percent of the planet’s water is available to fuel and feed its [ever growing population].

This is a crisis.

For various reasons, developing countries are affected more by the planet’s water scarcity than their industrialised counterparts. According data from water.org, getting clean drinking water can be quite difficult in those countries.

In Kenya, a non-profit organization called Give Power has designed a solar-powered desalination system that can produce 19,800 gallons (75,000 liters) of fresh drinking water every day.

In order to tackle this [water crisis] challenge, a non-profit organization called Give Power designed a desalination system that uses solar energy to pump out fresh drinking water [from] salty ocean water. The water treatment plant that began operating in July 2018 can produce 19,800 gallons (75,000 liters) of fresh drinking water every day which is enough for 25,000 people. This has considerably improved the lives of residents in Kiunga, a small coastal town in Kenya.

The rest of the story can be found here.

Source: Give Power

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