The world is adding an extra 80 million people each year. The UN has estimated that the world would require over 30 percent more water between 2012 and 2030. The traditional approach to improve on freshwater availability would no longer be able to keep pace with a swelling population and the worse impact climate change that would be seen in these years.
According to estimates, 97.5 percent of the earth’s water is seawater and 2 per cent is in the form of ice, that leaves only 0.5 percent which is fresh water. The supply of desalinated water is possibly the only water resource that does not depend on climate patterns.
Desalination plants operate in more than 150 countries in the world, the key locations are, Saudi Arabia, Oman, United Arab Emirates, USA, Spain, Cyprus, Malta, Gibraltar, Cape Verde, Portugal, Greece, Italy, India, China, Japan, and Australia. Globally, there are more than 17,000 desalination plants working mostly in the locations mentioned above producing over 21.1 billion US gallons of potable water a day. More than 300 million of people around the world today rely on desalinated water for some or all their daily needs.
More than half of global installed capacity of desalination is in the Middle East. We have now supplied the majority of these plants with our Pumice Filtration Media for pre-treatment filtration prior to SWRO desalination.
