| It's odd to see how damaging water can be, both | | | | solar water distiller can't hurt. There are many |
| through natural disasters and also through drinking | | | | expensive water filtration systems out there, and |
| dirty water. Both an overabundance of water and a | | | | many of them have filters that need to be changed |
| lack of water can be deadly. With the horrible | | | | often. |
| flooding taking place right now in Pakistan, we see | | | | The solar water distiller isn't the same. It's very easy |
| that too much water is just as deadly as a lack of | | | | to construct, mostly just wood and a pane of glass, |
| clean water, which kills hundreds daily worldwide. One | | | | and it doesn't use any filter at all, just natural |
| way or another, water is the largest issue facing | | | | evaporation. Nature cleans the water itself. It doesn't |
| mankind today. Were you aware that a lack of clean | | | | need any fancy devices. While living in the country of |
| water is the largest killer of human being on planet | | | | Cambodia for a year, I would often buy unripe |
| earth? Most people are unaware, and equally | | | | coconuts and drink the water locked inside. The |
| unaware of what can be done, if anything, to correct | | | | water in Cambodia wasn't often very clean but inside |
| this problem. Well one thing which can be done is to | | | | the green coconut lay about a pint of fresh, nutrient |
| implement solar water distiller technology. Many | | | | rich water that nature had cleaned on its own and |
| experts scoff at this kind of technology because it | | | | locked away inside the coconut. Over in Cambodia, |
| only uses evaporation to clean water instead of | | | | buying an unripe coconut cost about five cents at |
| more modern filtration methods. But sometimes | | | | the time. A clean bottle of water was twenty five |
| that's the best you can do. | | | | cents. So you decide which is more economical for |
| What is a solar water distiller? A solar water distiller is | | | | poor countries. |
| basically a triangular box with a glass pane enclosing | | | | Man made filtration is excellent. It's only downfall is its |
| the top. When this box is filled with dirty water and | | | | cost. Solar water distillation is a cheap way to give a |
| put out into the sun, the glass causes a greenhouse | | | | pretty decent amount of filtration to otherwise dirty |
| effect and the water heats up and begins to | | | | drinking water. Especially when used in times of a |
| evaporate very quickly. Then, as the water collects | | | | disaster, such as the flooding going on currently in |
| and condenses on the glass, it slides down and is | | | | Pakistan, solar water distillation ought to be used to |
| gathered and delivered into a jug. | | | | give people some access to clean water. And even |
| Opponents to this kind of technology say that the | | | | though solar water distillers can be used for personal |
| water that comes out of the solar water distiller isn't | | | | use, they can also be constructed on a grand scale, |
| ever really cleaned and therefore isn't viable for | | | | many many feet wide and long, for mass purification |
| human use. But just consider the alternative. If all the | | | | of water. I hope in the future, they'll be given a |
| humans have to drink prior to this is the dirty water, | | | | second look by governments and aid organization. |
| then surely running that same dirty water through a | | | | |