A new solar powered device turns salt water into fresh drinking water.
Machine that turns seawater into drinking water.
Making sea water into drinking water requires removal of the dissolved salt that according to the u s.
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The simple hurdle that must be overcome to turn seawater into freshwater is to remove the dissolved salt in seawater.
By inexpensively turning salt water into drinking water using sustainable solar power a team from mit in the us has not only come up with a portable desalination system for use anywhere in the world that needs it but it s just won the 2015 desal prize a competition run by usaid to encourage better solutions to water shortages in developing countries.
Those in developing nations have far less money to play around.
Seawater is naturally about 3.
Researchersfrom the university of alexandria have developed a cheaper simplerand potentially cleaner way to turn seawater into drinking water thanconventional methods.
In some areas salt water from the ocean for instance is being turned into freshwater for drinking.
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Then cover the bowl with plastic wrap and set a rock on top of the plastic wrap over the cup which will make a dip so fresh water can drip into the cup.
This new technology converts sea water into drinking water in minutes.
Purifying dirty water is a notoriously difficult and expensive process even in california financial pressures affect what can be done to tackle the severe drought in the area.
Geological survey makes up approximately 35 000 parts per million ppm of sea water s chemical composition.
Compared to the 40 to 60 of traditional reverse osmosis systems they are able to turn 90 of the saltwater fed into the machine into drinking water.
Givepower the nonprofit behind the technology is debuting the system in a coastal community in kenya.
Removing the salt from sea water or desalination on a large scale is extremely expensive but.
Portable machine turns salt water into drinking water using solar power.
And as the population continues to grow shortages of freshwater will occur more often if only in certain locations.