Permalink: https://media.greenpeace.org/archive/Solar-powered-Reverse-Osmosis-Plant-27MZIFI5S7A1.htmlConceptually similarSolar-powered Reverse Osmosis PlantGP026N3Completed★★★★Solar-powered Reverse Osmosis PlantGP026N4Completed★★★★Solar-powered Reverse Osmosis PlantGP026NACompleted★★★★★★Solar-powered Reverse Osmosis PlantGP026N8Completed★★★★★★Solar-powered Reverse Osmosis PlantGP026N6Completed★★★★Solar-powered Reverse Osmosis PlantGP026N1Completed★★★★Solar-powered Reverse Osmosis PlantGP026N2Completed★★★★Solar-powered Reverse Osmosis PlantGP026N9Completed★★★★Solar-powered Reverse Osmosis PlantGP026N5Completed★★★★View AllGP026N7Solar-powered Reverse Osmosis PlantParama Ram, 23, maintains the photovoltaic panels that power the desalination plant in Kotri Village, Rajasthan. The plant produces over 3000 litres of drinking water per day from the brackish groundwater reserves in the area. Parama lives above the plant and is one of its biggest advocates, personally persuading 100 of the 150 families that now collect the ‘sweet’ water to trust that the system was clean. Like many of the villagers, he would often have to drink the saline ground water before the plant was installed.Locations:Asia-India-Rajasthan-TiloniaDate:10 Aug, 2010Credit:© Prashanth Vishwanathan / GreenpeaceMaximum size:3861px X 2574pxKeywords:Climate (campaign title)-Day-KWCI (GPI)-Outdoors-Renewable energy-Solar energy-Solar panels-Solar power stations-Two peopleShoot:Solar-powered Water Desalination in RajasthanThe 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.Related Collections:Decentralised Renewable Energy Report (All Photographers)Renewable Energy (All Photographers)
