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Water availability and security is one of the biggest challenges facing the world today. The sea provides an abundance of water, but to be usable, it must be desalinated. 300 million people benefit daily from desalination, but uses a massive amount of electricity. GE ecomagination and Wa'ed, Saudi Aramco's entrepreneurship center, have launched a global open innovation challenge to find more sustainable solutions for seawater desalination.
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water from salt:ge’s global challenge to fi nd renewable
energy solutions for desalination
Water availability and security is one of the biggest challenges facing the world today
The sea provides an abundance of water, but to be useable, it must be desalinated
desalination by the numbers
Desalination plants worldwide:
15,988
Total global capacity of all desalination plants worldwide: 66.5 millioncubic meters/day
Source: International Desalination Association
The Hamma Seawater Desalination Plant in Algeria
Capacity:
200,000cubic meters of water
Provides2 million residentsof Algiers with drinkable water.
The Hamma Seawater Desalination plant uses seawater reverse osmosis… see how it works in this video
300 million peoplebenefit daily from desalination
Global production of desalinated water uses approximately 75.2 terawatt-hours of electricity per year, enough to power nearly 7 million homes
GE ecomagination and Wa’ed, Saudi Aramco’s entrepreneurship center, have launched a global open innovation challenge to find more sustainable solutions for seawater desalination
New solutions need to reduce cost and increase efficiency by using…
RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
ADVANCED MATERIALS
BETTER PROCESSES
Entries are being immediately accepted at: www.ninesights.com/community/ecomagination
Entry deadline: July 16, 2014
Winners announced: September 2014
The most innovative solutions will be selected by a panel of GE and Saudi Aramco judges.
