Potable water

The global need for potable water is undeniable. More than 2 billion people worldwide are truly in need of clean water on a frequent, if not daily, basis. Billions are spent every year on the acqusition of potable water, and it doesn’t affect just arid nations. People all over the world spend an extensive amount of time and money in order to acquire clean water for cooking and drinking. The UAE spends over $800 million a year on desalination to produce potable water.  The potable water market is projected to be 30 billion by 2028. Even in the US in recent years, access to water has become an ever increasing  problem, particularly in the wetern states.
Current methods of desalination and water purification are expensive, extremely energy consuming, require large amounts of space and infrastructure, are limited to mostly wealthy countries, and are not available to all populations. Distilled Energy can change that – it’s scalble, adaptable, inexpensive, potentially portable, and totally solar. It’s a rational, logical, alternative to traditional desalination methods. Of course, Distilled Energy is not likely to replace the large mulit-million dollar desalination facilities currently in operation. However, it would be suitable for smaller communities, and even larger communities with multiple installations of the device, or with larger renditions. Because the device doesn’t have any significant costs of operation, it’s an inexpensive alternative solar-thermal desalination method. 
The distribution of seawater desalinated by traditional methods is expensive, as well as time and energy-consuming. Most curent desalination facilities are not located where there is easy access to the purified water they produce. It often has to be transported by truck or boat in order to reach many of the populations that are dependent on it. Distilled Energy can be a more local solution. It can be employed anywhere there is access to water and sunlight – on islands, in bayous, in bays, in smaller communities, in hard to reach areas, in disaster situations. It will decrease the cost of obtaining potable desalinated water, as well as simplify the logistics of transport and distribution.
There are humanitarian implications for the device as well, because it doesn’t require infrastructure or any external power. It could be designed in such a way as to be deployable in remote areas, as well as in disaster situations. It could be ‘portable’ or easily moved, since it is a self-contained device.