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Keywords
Climate (campaign title)
Day
Drinking water
Girls
KWCI (GPI)
Local population
Outdoors
Pre-adolescent children (10-13)
Renewable energy
Salt Mining
Solar energy
Two people
Water pollution
Solar-powered Water Desalination in Rajasthan, India
Pinka Rathore (10, front left) fetches safe drinking water from the solar-powered desalination plant in Kotri village. Groundwater in the area is heavily contaminated with salt, though many are forced to drink it.
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NO FUNDRAISING
Unique identifier:
GP02AJK
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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