Research And Development into Reliable and Sustainable Remote and Seawater Purification Technology to Increasing Drinking Water Access Worldwide

水是一种对人类健康至关重要的多种多样的资源，但全世界有22亿人(三分之一)无法获得安全的饮用水。尽管英国大部分地区的饮用水充足，但在农村地区，很难获得符合适当饮用水标准的饮用水，因为农村地区的物业与公用事业公司分离，依赖未经处理的私人供水，如钻井、水井和溪流。净化未经处理的私人供水，以及咸水或海水，是增加饮用水供应的关键解决方案，但季节性和暴风雨会导致污染物、温度和盐分浓度波动，污染传统的净化技术。这些限制对农村社区不利，减少偏远地区的经济增长，并增加对塑料瓶装水的依赖。清洁水设计公司开发了一种专有的高速、低能量蒸馏技术，能够始终如一地将以前无法处理的原水来源(包括海水)处理到饮用水标准，无需消耗部件，使这种重要的资源可以在世界任何地方的农村家庭和企业使用。在这个由用户推动的项目中，CWD将：*优化其热力学系统，使每升能源的价格负担得起，在财务上具有说服力；*引入物联网集成，以实现远程数据收集、设备改进和维护成本节约；*通过创造性的设计显著降低材料清单和组装成本；*生产三个示范原型，以便在相关环境中进行扩展的用户试验；以及*准备符合CE和水质标准，使项目以外的快速商业化。清洁水设计将使这项创新的英国发明更接近市场，根据现有用户的吸引力和农村商业物业需要可持续解决饮用水问题的意向书，并为快速商业化和未来的国际扩张奠定基础，满足我们的可持续发展目标。

Water is a versatile resource that is vital to human health, yet 2.2 billion people around the world (1/3) do not have access to safe drinking water.Although abundant to the majority of the UK, it can be difficult to obtain drinking water to appropriate drinking standards in rural locations where properties are detached from utilities companies and reliant on untreated Private Water Supplies such as boreholes, wells and streams.Purifying raw Private Water Supplies, and brackish or seawater, is a crucial solution to increase drinking water access, but seasonality and storms lead to contaminant, temperature and salt concentration fluctuations, fouling traditional purification technologies.These limitations disadvantage rural communities, reducing economic growth in remote areas, as well as increasing reliance on plastic bottled water.Clean Water Designs, have developed a proprietary high-speed, low-energy distillation technology, capable of treating previously untreatable raw water sources including seawater, to drinking water standards, consistently, with no consumable parts, allowing this vital resource to be available on tap to rural homes and businesses anywhere in the world.In this project driven by user pull, CWD will:* optimise its thermodynamic system making the energy price/litre affordable and financially compelling;* introduce an Internet of Things integration to enable remote data gathering, device improvements and maintenance cost saving;* Significantly reduced its Bill of Materials and assembly cost through inventive design;* Produce three demonstrator prototypes enabling extended user trials in a relevant environment; and* Prepare for CE and Water Quality compliance enabling rapid commercialisation beyond the project.Clean Water Designs will bring this innovative UK invention closer to market, acting on existing user pull and letters of intent from rural commercial properties in need of sustainable solutions to their drinking water problems, and set the groundwork for rapid commercialisation and future international expansion, address our sustainable development goals.