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Solar‐powered Water Treatment Unit Installed in Philippines
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.2011.tb11410.x
Subject(s) - unit (ring theory) , club , renewable energy , rural electrification , electrification , photovoltaic system , clean water , environmental science , business , waste management , engineering , environmental engineering , electricity , electrical engineering , medicine , mathematics education , mathematics , anatomy
This article announces that the Rotary Club of Iloilo City, the Philippines, with a financial contribution from the Rotary Club of Sae Goyang, South Korea, has donated a new solar‐powered water treatment unit to the Barangay district in Iloilo Province. The unit supplies families in the district and people from neighboring towns with safe drinking water at affordable prices. A decentralized solution with a solar power center (a compact photovoltaic system for electrification of rural areas) and a water treatment unit were installed and launched in October 2010. The unit daily provides the inhabitants of Ban‐Ag with approximately 15,000 liters of clean and safe drinking water, powered by renewable energy and without any chemicals.