Absolutely. RO is one of the most favored methods of purifying and desalinating contaminated water sources. It is frequently used as a treatment process prior to bottling water because it produces an extremely high quality of water for drinking.

Yes, we work with the top companies in the industry to design equipment that will pass the most stringent drinking water requirements. In countries where there are active standards in place, we work with the local water authorities to make sure that our water conforms to their standards. In regions where standards are not well regulated, we hold ourselves to World Health Organization standards on drinking water.

We partnered with the leading companies in the desalination, pump design, solar technology and battery storage industries to develop one of the most efficient desalination systems on the planet. By designing the solar array, battery bank and desalination system to operate 24/7 on renewable sources our systems are independent of local, frequently dirty, power generation systems. This design allows us to operate in communities that have no access to a main electrical grid or where the electrical grid is unreliable. Our systems operate at municipal scale efficiency but are built on a scale which provides access to smaller communities.

We design our systems using a beach or borehole well rather than what is called an “open intake”. Open intakes can inadvertently suck up marine animals and plant life and are more susceptible to damage from storms and human activity. By constructing a well the earth acts as a natural first stage filter providing cleaner, less turbid water to the desalination plant. This makes the equipment last longer but it also eliminates any potential harmful effects on local marine life, since no plant or animal life can find its way into the well.

By desalinating seawater we can provide dry coastal regions with a new potable water resource, rather than straining an already stressed natural resource like groundwater. Seawater desalination allows us to access the most abundant water resource on earth, the ocean, and turn it into an inexpensive, high-quality source of drinking water.

Yes, GivePower provides safe water solutions to regions that don’t have access to a potable water supply. This can include inland communities that have brackish or saline groundwater as well as well as dry coastal communities with access to seawater.

It depends on the proximity of the installation site to the ocean. When the site is on the coast, then we typically send the concentrate discharge back to the ocean. In these cases, we design a discharge pipeline that allows the concentrate discharge to slowly trickle back into the ocean across a greater distance than a simple open-ended pipe.  has shown that by designing discharge pipes in this way, the concentrate discharge mixes with the ocean very quickly and virtually eliminates any measurable effect on the surrounding environment.

In sites where direct access to the ocean is not available, the concentrate discharge is typically returned to the ground through using an infiltration basin or injection well. These devices are located a suitable distance from the intake well so as to avoid contaminating the feed water with the discharge water. The design of our water treatment also minimizes the impact on underground aquifers by limiting the concentration of the discharge water and the use of chemicals common in other (RO) systems. In most cases the concentrate discharge contains nothing that was not already present in the raw feed water.