The irony of Cape Town's drought - we invented our own solution but sold it elsewhere in the World I remember reading many years ago about a Somerset West based inventor, Mr William Graham, who had invented a containerised (easily portable) water desalination plant based on 16" reverse osmosis technology (back in 1994). At the time there was little interest or uptake and he made his name internationally my marketing this product. Part of the issue was it requiring quite a lot of electricity to operate. Locally he made a bigger name for himself just a few years ago with a Waste-to-Energy technology is to provide energy in the form of oil or gas, with high-quality byproducts of carbon char, scrap metal & glass. Feedstock includes hydrocarbon waste recycling, tyre recycling, waste oil recycling, oil refinery cutter stock, e-waste recycling, municipal solid waste recycling and medical waste recycling. Desalination - an alternative water source - allows people to have access to water that was previously not potable. In most cases this means that coastal cities can use seawater for the supply of potable water to their economies. Saudi Arabia already distributes desalinated seawater over distances in excess 2,500 miles. There are presently more than 12,500 desalination plants in operation or in construction worldwide; 60% of these are located in the Middle East and North Africa. This number is set to grow at a rate of approximately 8% year on year until 2030. Desalination combined with Waste Water Treatment is therefore a growing solution provided that it can be done cost effectively and without negatively impacting the environment. Now he has self-contained Barge-Based and Sea Platform Water Treatment concepts which are an innovative enhancement with the capacity to provide between 5,000-20,000 m³ of water per day, and which can operate off the grid. See http://ift.tt/2kMkJ95
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