Recent Results of the Field Tests with the New Solar Desalination System for Decentralized Drinking Water Production in Namibia and Brazil
Abstract
It is known that only 2.5 % of the water in the Earth is sweet, while 97.5 % is salty. The 2.5 % of freshwater is distributed as: 0.001 % water in the atmosphere, 1.979 % in glaciers, 0.006 % in rivers and lakes, and 0.514 % as groundwater. There is an important need for potable water throughout different regions of the world and the solution to meet the increasing demand is to desalinate salty water by processing sea, ground or waste water into drinkable water.