Groundbreaking affordable watermaker

Desalinators operate on a simple principle, but to date have generally been prohibitively expensive for many.

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That’s partly because a fully-automated electric unit has to incorporate checks and procedures to ensure that a malfunction doesn’t result in tanks being filled with salt water. They’re also sold in small numbers, with the result that production costs are high. This is also a problem for simple hand-operated models intended for survival use, which typically cost many hundreds of pounds.