{"id":143863,"date":"2022-08-10T15:23:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T20:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/off-grid-desalination-system-wave2o-is-ready-to-quench-the-worlds-thirst"},"modified":"2022-08-10T15:23:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T20:23:01","slug":"off-grid-desalination-system-wave2o-is-ready-to-quench-the-worlds-thirst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/off-grid-desalination-system-wave2o-is-ready-to-quench-the-worlds-thirst","title":{"rendered":"Off-grid desalination system Wave2O is ready to quench the world\u2019s thirst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/off-grid-desalination-system-wave2o-is-ready-to-quench-the-worlds-thirst.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Water scarcity is a major global crisis that already affects every continent. Around 1.2 billion people, or almost one-fifth of the world\u2019s population, lack access to safe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inceptivemind.com\/tag\/Drinking-Water\/\">drinking water<\/a>. Desalination is the answer to long-term water security, but it\u2019s also expensive, energy-intensive, and often inaccessible to isolated regions. This is why sustainable off-grid desalination systems powered by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inceptivemind.com\/tag\/renewable-energy\/\">renewable energy<\/a> are essential.<\/p>\n<p>But thanks to the innovative microbial desalination cell (MDC) technology that follows a green, low-energy process with electro-active bacteria to desalinate and sterilize seawater, desalination is becoming a viable low-cost solution for water resources in many areas of the world and is putting an end to water scarcity even in isolated regions.<\/p>\n<p>Now, researchers from the EU-funded W20 project have developed an off-grid innovative solution \u2013 the world\u2019s first wave-driven <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inceptivemind.com\/tag\/desalination\/\">desalination<\/a> system \u2013 called Wave2O. The new system can be deployed quickly, operate completely off-grid, and supply large quantities of fresh water at a competitive cost. The technology uses the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inceptivemind.com\/rmit-wave-energy-converter-extracts-twice-power-ocean-waves\/20640\/\">power of the ocean waves<\/a>, a consistent and inexhaustible renewable energy source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water scarcity is a major global crisis that already affects every continent. Around 1.2 billion people, or almost one-fifth of the world\u2019s population, lack access to safe drinking water. Desalination is the answer to long-term water security, but it\u2019s also expensive, energy-intensive, and often inaccessible to isolated regions. This is why sustainable off-grid desalination systems [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}