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Climate (campaign title)
Day
Drinking water
KWCI (GPI)
Outdoors
Solar energy
Three people
Trees
Villages
Solar-powered Water Desalination
Mayadevi Meena, 30, carries a pot of water to her home in Kotri village. Fetching water is the typically the work of women, and can use up a lot of time if the source is far. Mayadevi has been drawing clean drinking water from the nearby solar-powered reverse osmosis plant for the last four years, and says her family’s health has been good since. Before the installation of the plant the family would drink saline groundwater, and Mayadevi says their joints hurt and teeth yellowed.
Unique identifier:
GP026NC
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
10/08/2010
Locations:
Asia
,
India
,
Rajasthan
,
Tilonia
Credit line:
© Prashanth Vishwanathan / Greenpeace
Ranking:
★★★★ (E)
Containers
Shoot:
Solar-powered Water Desalination in Rajasthan
The Sambhar Salt Lake is India's largest lake, situated in east-central Rajasthan. The population that lives nearby are facing increasing water shortage not just due to changing rain patterns and the rapid desertification of the state, but also as the salt lake has salinated the groundwater supply for many kilometres around. With no alternative in the dry months, many are forced to drink the heavily-salted water. Yet in Kotri village, Ajmer district, residents can now draw clean drinking water from a reverse osmosis plant powered by solar photovoltaic panels. The technician who cares for the system is a local villager who received little formal education yet learned to manage the plant in just six days. Around one thousand people draw safe water from the plant, which produces 500-600 litres of fresh water per hour.
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