More than 1.1 billion people have no access to clean water.
Water shortage is a worldwide problem that is growing worse. The population of the world will increase to more than 9.2 billion by the year 2050 and will need more and more water. But only 2.5 percent of the Earth's total supply of water is suitable for drinking.
The remaining 97.5 percent of the water on Earth is saltwater. By the year 2025, two-thirds of the world population will inhabit countries and regions where not enough water is available for everyday living. Although there are worldwide approx. 10,000 to 15,000 large desalination plants, people living outside of big cities will suffer increasingly from water shortage. Because those plants are built only where the necessary infrastructure and capital investments are available.
The future of supplying water to many people outside and away from big cities lies in small solar desalination systems such as those of HelioAquaTech, which produce water where needed without much cost and effort: directly on site.
Worldwide water problems:
3.3 million people die every year by drinking contaminated water.
5,000 children die every year from diseases caused by polluted water.
In regions where water is in short supply, women have to walk up to 5 hours daily to fetch water miles away.
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The green way to drinking water
The HelioAquaTech Solar Desalination System is the environmentally friendliest technology for the production of drinking water from saltwater. It requires neither electricity nor gas, only solar energy. It protects flora and fauna, since filtered-out salt is reclaimed and not returned to the sea.
Right to water is a human right
The World Health Organization (WHO) supports and initiates many projects to provide billions of people in the poorest countries of the world access to clean water. Read more about those projects at the official website of the WHO.
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Salt – what exactly is it anyway?
Salt, which can be produced with our HelioAquaTech System, for example? More
Winner of the Global Energy Award
One of the most important awards concerning environment and ecology, was presented to the Solar Desalination System in 2009. The system was nominated again for the award in 2010.