Coca-Cola rolls out off-grid water kiosks for developing areas

A coalition of businesses and nonprofit organizations led by Coca-Cola has pledged to deliver up to 2,000 off-grid water purification systems to rural communities in 20 countries by late 2015.
The strategy aims to deliver an estimated 500 million liters of safe drinking water to these locations and to provide entrepreneurial opportunities for up to 5 million women in the process, which is the high-level goal of Coca-Cola's 5by20 program.Two types of units are at the center of the initiative, which Coca-Cola developed in collaboration with Segway inventor Dean Kamen's DEKA R&D venture. The first is the Slingshot, a small unit that uses vapor compression distillation to turn dirty water from any source into potable water.
The second is an even more ambitious concept called the EKOCENTER, a modular kiosk made from a 20-foot shipping container that provides clean water with the Slingshot technology, along with other services, such as wireless communications or even clean, off-grid electricity.

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1. but who is going to look the maintenance part? Coca cola and these all private sector people put these facilities but their is no sustainable maintenance solution provided and that's what these project fails.

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   1. I agree. Nice idea, but unless the systems are very simple, with easily obtainable replacement parts; and can be maintained by a local person with a minimum of technical training, it is likely that after a relatively short time these systems will be non-functional.

2. This is splendid; is it a pilot or scale-up, we are interested