Abu Dhabi: The Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi (EAD) has announced the completion of the construction of 22 solar desalination plants which togther produce 6600 gallons of water a day.
It is part of the agency's project to construct 30 solar desalination plants in different locations across the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, officials said on Wednesday at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi.
Solar desalination is an innovative zero-carbon technology that extracts brackish saline water from groundwater aquifers and transforms it into fresh potable water.
EAD is still testing this new solar desalination technique and working on perfecting the efficiency of this method through its pilot project launched in Umm Al Zamool in the emirate.
The purpose of this pilot project is to provide findings and translate them into recommendations to develop more stations and reduce the cost of its capital cost in the future and increase efficiency at the same time.
Each of the plant produces around 1,100 gallons of clean water per hour - approximately 6,600 gallons on an average day, the EAD officials said.
