Desalination: A Global Solution to Water Scarcity An environmentally friendly supply of clean water All the water we have 3.5% Freshwater 96.5% Saltwater (Oceans, sea) Global water consumption Overall, the world is using more than 9,100,000,000,000,000 liters of water CE per year, or about 2Buitiontitersaday A ecU ta (Ter India: 1.2 quadrillion liters US: 11. quadrillion liters China: 1.2 quadrillion titers Why it Matters 7billion people world’s population 36% of the world's 780 million people Without fresh, population lacks live without access to potable drinking water, access to improved save drinking water. mortality rates remain sanitation. high-3.6 million ‘that's } people die each year illi from water related 2.5 billion people esi Desalination = global solution Desal as a sustainable business Practices ee greater be sateianii : efficiency, and adopting measures to enhance model: through lowering the cost of : cae tal st hi ination hi desalination by developing technologies that | S*Vironmental stewardship, desalination has . become the global solution to water scarcity lower energy requirements, implementing Desalination plants are 149.8 billion producing billions of liters liters of clean water every day: There are more than 16,000 desalination plants in the world. Imagine if the number of desalination plants doubled! 74.9 billion liters 47.6 billion liters 2008 2013 By 2025, the production of agriculture is dependent on fresh water resources UN expects 14% and we need food supply to survive Energy Recovery Technology Propelling Desalination Globally feta 14,000 desalination affordable: i levices are in use advanced pump and on all seven continents, turbine technology helping to. is making desalination | operationally efficient, PRODUCE more cost effective 10 In China and ind sustainabl says - wa billion India atone Energy liters of fresh water per day Recovery’s solutions help desalination plants save Db combined 1.2 billion KwH per year and Px Pressure aoa produce more than 1 xchange! billion billion titers of clean technology. kWh of energy per year water per day. www.energyrecovery.com @ energy recovery” Sources: Scientific American ~enjoys-growth-spurt-scarcity-starts-bite/ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?idegra_ WASH Advocates phic-science-how-much-water-nations-consume ittp://wwwrwashadvocates.org/act/world-water-day-2 The Nation 013) http://wnrw.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/environme "World Water Day 2013" - Suez Environment Water nt/uae-has-grand-plans-to-desalinate-using-renewatl Blog e-energy ittp://wwwwaterblog.suez-environnement.com/en/20 Global Water Intelligence 12/03/09/infographic-water-the-challenge-for-the- 21st http://www.globalwaterintel.com/desalination-industry -century/