A group of MIT engineers have designed a way to desalinize water using solar energy. The premise was to help out rural and low-income villages overseas gain access to safe drinking water. The project has been a success and they have been able to
A group of MIT engineers have designed a way to desalinize water using solar energy. The premise was to help out rural and low-income villages overseas gain access to safe drinking water. The project has been a success and they have been able to create about 2,100 gallons of drinking water in a day.
The group was awarded first place Desal Prize last month in the Securing Water for Food Challenge.That awarded them a $140,000 grant. The group plans to use that to create an $11,000 system that could save at least one village in India. About 21% of India’s communicable diseases result from unsafe drinking water. Most of the water that is available to them is considered brackish groundwater, which is high in salt.
When salt is dissolved in water it breaks down into positively and negatively charged ions. The process of desalinizat