Coca-Cola & DEKA R&D to bring clean water to the Third World using "Slingshot" technology

Published on October 5, 2012 07:52 by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Technology

The Coca-Cola Co. partnered with DEKA R&D to bring clean water to the Third World using DEKA's "Slingshot" technology.

"The Slingshot water purification system uses a vapor compression distillation system that runs on low levels of electricity," Coca-Cola said in a statement. "The system boils and evaporates any dirty water source - river water, ocean water and even raw sewage - and then allows the pure water to condense and be collected. One Slingshot unit can purify up to 300,000 liters of water each year - enough daily drinking water for roughly 300 people - producing 10 gallons of clean water an hour while consuming less than 1 kilowatt of electricity, which is less than the amount of power needed to run a standard handheld hair dryer."

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