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RISE Information Portal - Technologies - Solar Desalination

Where water quality is poor, either because it is saline, as in many parts of central Australia, or contaminated with biological organisms, water desalination and pasteurisation are essential for the provision of water suitable for drinking and cooking. Solar desalination is the desalination of water using solar energy. Solar desalination in the modern era extends back to the early 1950s when simple solar stills were studied for remote desert and coastal communities.