Elemental Water Makers

They say if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. We get this a lot. Savings as substantial as 70% can raise eyebrows and perhaps even suspicion.

In all honesty, we use 70% less energy for desalination.
And as a bonus, we also don't use chemicals.
Plus, we throw in one free year of support.

We have reached a remarkable number of 30 countries to date, where our desalination solutions are deployed. From enabling life in the desert for plants in Africa to running exclusive operations in the Caribbean, you will find it all in this exciting update.

Check out how we realize 70% savings:
https://mailchi.mp/elementalwatermakers/too-good-to-be-true

Enabling life in the desert. 💧 Water is Life 🌱

is an arid country regularly afflicted by droughts. Oliver Rust's Jojoba for Namibia Trust was founded to support women in dry desert areas to build up their own jojoba plantations and harvesting centres and become a part of the whole value chain. However, access to fresh water was a limiting factor in its impact.

We recently commissioned a solar-powered solution at the Jojoba for Namibia Trust so that the people and the seedlings will never be without fresh water again.

“Water quality has always been a pre-requisite for our developments. Not only does this account for human consumption but also as an enabler for agricultural projects. In the past, the various activities revolving around our “Omdel Dam -Project” have always been hampered by the availability of fresh quality water. Fortunately, this has become a problem of the past.

Working with Elemental Water Makers has been an absolute pleasure. Their proactive approach and support throughout the various project phases enabled us to implement a no-nonsense solution in one of the most arid places on this planet. Installation was quick and easy with results which exceeded our imagination. Thank you at Elemental Water Makers for enabling life in the desert!”

We want to thank Oliver and his team, as well as everyone else involved for making this project a success and enabling life in the desert together. Learn more here:
https://www.elementalwatermakers.com/projects/project-namibia/

Today, March 22 is our favourite day of the year: .

Water for peace is this year's theme, as water can create peace or spark conflict.

Today we share two examples of how we contribute by providing clean water for over 30.000 people in Gaza and Somalia. Read the full story here:
https://mailchi.mp/elementalwatermakers/water-for-peace

We wish you a wonderful World Water Day.

Considering one-third of Africa's population is already affected by water scarcity, will become more and more part of its water supply. It's important to do it in a both sustainable and viable way, which translates to avoiding the use of chemicals, using as little energy as possible (70% less) and using the unlimited resources of the sea and sun. This interesting article in the African Business highlights the possibilities and challenges of decentralized desalination.

As climate change worsens, can desalination rescue Africa from water stress? Solar power is helping to make small-scale desalination projects more viable in remote areas.

CNN recently shot an item on green desalination that aired globally. Have a guess which organization they selected to visit for their episode of Going Green on water resources.

''Elemental Water Makers is harnessing the power of the sea and sun to provide affordable, clean drinking water to rural communities across the world.''

We hope you enjoy the episode and our latest update:
https://mailchi.mp/elementalwatermakers/green-solution-desalination

As the end of the year is approaching, it's time to reflect and look forward. It's been an amazing year with more clean water projects than ever before. We were able to make clean water in challenging contexts, including Somalia & Yemen, made our solutions even more robust through further innovation, were recognized in several awards and received a generous amount of coverage on CNN, Euronews and Discovery Channel to amplify our mission.
We want to thank all our users, partners, suppliers, friends and community for their support.
Together, we can look forward to the future with much excitement, scaling our impact even further to address global water scarcity using only the sustainable resources of the sea and sun.

The full episode has been released! CNN recently visited our solar desalination projects in rural and dropped by Elemental Water Makers headquarters in The Netherlands. 💦

In this Going Green episode on water, we explained the challenge of increasing freshwater scarcity due to climate change and population growth. More than 700 million people still lack access to clean water, of which 75% live in rural communities. These are too often overlooked.

Through our solar desalination solutions, which use 70% less electricity, don't require any chemicals and can be powered using only solar energy, we have been making clean water for over 100,000 people in developing communities. It's our ambition to help 10 million people by 2030.

Enjoy this Going Green episode and join us in solving fresh water scarcity, using only the sea and sun. It starts at 07:00:

Securing our planet's water | CNN Water is one of the most precious resources on our planet. From the Great African Sea Forest to the San Francisco Bay, meet five innovators coming up with new ways to protect water - from how we consume it, to how we conserve it.

We are going big on CNN! 475 million households will be able to learn about Elemental Water Makers solar desalination solutions this Saturday, Nov 4th during CNN's special of 'Going Green'. This episode is about the protection and purification of water, where our solar desalination technology plays a major role. It will air on your local CNN International this Saturday in over 200 countries:

- 6:30 am and 8 pm Central Europe Time
- 1:30 pm and Sunday 3 am Hong Kong Time
- 1:30 am and 3 pm Eastern Daylight Time

We are very curious and hope you will enjoy the show!

CNN's Going Green explores the innovations protecting and purifying water /PRNewswire/ -- Water is one of the most precious resources on our planet – we use it to grow food, produce energy, and many products we use rely on it. It is...

Rain is a collection of many water droplets falling from the sky. Together, these individual droplets provide a key element of the Earth's water cycle, enabling life. For places where there is not sufficient rain available, is a necessity to augment the water supplies. We make water using only the elements of the sea and sun as a solution for generations to come.

Within the desalination industry, there is a predominant focus on large-scale projects that feed over 300 million in urban population. However, if we look at the limited progress of access to clean water ( ), we will notice that 3 out of 4 people who lack access to safe water live in rural areas. Together all these rural areas account for around 43% of the world's population. Yet there is no interest from the desalination industry in these small projects due to their limited financial size, tough logistics and challenges when it comes to operation & maintenance.

At Elemental Water Makers, we believe that this is where we can make a difference. In this update, you will find a video of an impressive drinking water project for a community in Yemen. We shipped 7 units to The Philippines for coastal communities, we commissioned a project in Belize, we upgraded two projects in Tanzania and several desalination projects were constructed for Latin America, the Pacific and the Caribbean. Together, all these smaller water users make a lot of water droplets. Together, we can make it rain. Enjoy our full update here:
https://mailchi.mp/elementalwatermakers/lets-make-it-rain

One of the best parts about water is that everyone is familiar with it. Most of us are also familiar with the general downsides of the process of desalination; it's (fossil) energy-intensive, chemicals are added which end up in the saltwater return and it's complex to operate and maintain, making it very expensive. With droughts lurking globally, it's the time of the year this becomes a hot topic.

We at Elemental Water Makers have a different approach. By energy recovery technology, electricity bills are reduced by 70%, allowing us to make the step to solar energy. By the water treatment design, the use of chemicals and frequent membrane replacement is avoided. And by using quality components, designed and installed for the specific use case, with support available, the operation and maintenance costs are minimized. By investing up-front, the lowest costs of ownership can be obtained, making clean water from the sea for anything between 1-2 €/m³.

Enjoy the full update on how we make affordable water in a sustainable way in over 25 countries here:
https://mailchi.mp/elementalwatermakers/desalination-without-downsides

The last time was in 1977. This week on 22-24th March 2023, the United Nations organize this generation's UN Water Conference in New York with the goal of a bold Agenda. There's no doubt that we are facing a water crisis. And as water and climate are inextricably linked, the future calls for water action.

While high-level discussions are important for the path towards access to clean water for everyone, it's difficult to understand what these pledges will mean for any one of us. Islands and coastal regions are still too often overlooked due to their smaller size and voices.

Meanwhile with spring not even upon us, the first signs of a dry summer have already made the headlines, for example in Italy where gondolas are stranded in Venice and in the Horn of Arica, with another failed rainy season.

Now more than ever, it's about water deeds. We are proud to steadily continue our impact by making water available from the sea and sun for islands and coastal regions globally. Please enjoy our latest update and have a wonderful :
https://mailchi.mp/elementalwatermakers/water-action

We want to thank everyone for their pleasant cooperation and for your support this year. It's rewarding to be able to work on access to clean water using only the sea and sunshine.

We are now active in 26 countries where we help private properties, communities, resorts, industries and municipalities get access to clean water using only sustainable resources.

To date, more than 100.000 people in rural communities have received access to clean water through our solutions. Next stop, 1 million. We look forward to another exciting year to come.

Wishing you and yours a merry Christmas and all the best for the new year on behalf of everyone at Elemental Water Makers.

With the holiday season slowly closing in upon us, it's our pleasure to provide you with our latest news and updates.

We've received many positive responses on the Discovery Channel episode that features our desalination technology. It's been quite the year being featured on big names such as Euronews English, Mashable and Discovery Channel.

At the end of the day, it's the impact of the water solutions that matter. These are currently helping people in over 25 countries worldwide to ensure access to clean water.

Would you like to join us in our mission? Learn more about our latest vacancy and read our full update below:
https://mailchi.mp/elementalwatermakers/discover-our-water-solutions

As engineers, it's been our dream to be on the popular Discovery Inc Channel show 'How Do They Do It'. We are excited to share we are on it!

Meanwhile, we have been working on the implementation and development of several exciting solar projects worldwide. New projects are underway in The Philippines, Madagascar, Belize, Namibia and several more locations. At the same time, solar desalination projects have been commissioned in The Philippines, Yemen & Kenya.

Please enjoy our latest update here:
https://mailchi.mp/elementalwatermakers/how-do-they-do-it

Even a country famous for its waterworks is not excluded from increasing water scarcity due to climate change. The Dutch news (NOS) and Nieuwsuur visited Elemental Water Makers yesterday to show that turning seawater into clean water using solar energy is a viable alternative.

With prolonged droughts, there is now official water scarcity in place in The Netherlands and measures are taken to overcome this. We already provide solar desalination solutions in over 25 countries and could not have imagined that the urgency has increased so quickly in only 10 years' time.

The technology to solve water scarcity is there: we can re-use water, we can use it efficiently and we can turn to other sources such as the sea. Let's start valuing water together.

You can find the News article here:
https://nos.nl/nieuwsuur/artikel/2439349-doorspoelen-met-regen-en-zeewater-zoet-maken-want-watertekort-wordt-nijpend

Doorspoelen met regen en zeewater zoet maken, want 'watertekort wordt nijpend' Sinds deze week hebben we een 'feitelijk watertekort' in ons land. En hoewel de nadruk ligt op het besparen van water, zijn sommigen bedrijven ook al bezig met nieuwe manieren om water te winnen.

Sustainable desalination is more than using solar energy. This is how we turn the growing promise of seawater into something 'sweet'. Enjoy our Summer update:
https://mailchi.mp/elementalwatermakers/the-sweet-promise-of-seawater

Euronews English latest episode of just launched. They dropped by at the Dutch scale-up Elemental Water Makers to answer the question: is solar-powered the solution to the world’s growing water crisis?

Almost 2 billion people worldwide do not have easy access to drinking water, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). And half of the world’s population could be living in areas facing water scarcity by 2025, according to UNICEF.

The off-grid solar-powered desalination solutions of Elemental Water Makers are part of the solution. By using 70% less electricity, the water systems need 70% fewer solar panels. This means affordable clean water using only the sea and sun. They already provide water for almost 100,000 people.

Rethink shines a light on the leaders and disruptors rethinking the future of money, work, health, home and mobility.

Watch the full interview here:
https://www.euronews.com/embed/1954906

VIDEO : Is solar-powered desalination the solution to the world’s growing water crisis? VIDEO : Water scarcity is a threat to billions of people worldwide. This company is harnessing the power of the sun and the ocean to make a difference.

We have hit the 10-year mark and in this single decade, there have been a lot of changes.

Embarking on our mission to solve freshwater scarcity in 2012, it seems like we still have work to do. Droughts are on the rise.

Fortunately, clean desalination technology is also on the rise and we can extend our water resources in an affordable and sustainable way.

Today we celebrate our global progress with you, thanking all our colleagues, partners, users and friends for their continued support over the past 10 years:

https://mailchi.mp/elementalwatermakers/stirring-up-water-for-a-decade

to contribute to access to clean water for remote communities in developing countries that are overseen by development aid and impact investor.

Of all people that lack access to clean water, 72% live in remote areas. Another community in now has access to clean water using only the sea & sun.

Big news! We are proud to share that the next clean water project for a remote community has been successfully commissioned in .

As a result, the community of Tsifota now enjoys a daily supply of 20.000 liters of clean , made only from the elements of seawater and sunshine.

The water will be distributed at a rate of 6 Ariary per liter, which equals 0,0013 € per liter. That’s only 0,13 cents per liter which comes at a much lower expense than the currently unsafe transported water or bottled water. This small contribution with the purpose to cover the operational expenses of the system and ensure a sustainable business model. Local operators have been trained to operate and maintain the system.

Through this project, several SDG's have been reached for a vulnerable remote community in a developing country, including access to clean water, improved health, resilience and the possibility for further community development. Remote communities continue to be overlooked by development aid and impact investors and we are proud to reach the people that need it most (and the 72% of the global population that actually still lack access to clean water).

A big thank you to everyone for their support in realizing this project: Trans-Mad' Développement Feedback Company Nederland Elemental Water Makers Stichting Triodos Foundation Synchrony The Shore Scheveningen
Please find the entire update here:
https://mailchi.mp/elementalwaterfoundation/tsifota-now-enjoys-clean-water

Traditionally held on 22 March since 1993, celebrates water and raises awareness of the 2 billion people living without access to safe water.

To celebrate water and improve access to clean water a short update from our engineers in the in where we are realizing a project to make clean from the sea and sun for a community.

Read the full story here:
https://mailchi.mp/elementalwatermakers/today-we-celebrate-water

Something refreshingly undisputed is that everyone needs every day. We are happy to be working together with our partners & customers on solar projects. Enabling access to water truly is a combined effort.

In this update you will see how we are inspiring the next generation of water makers, we confirm several new projects on three different continents and we reflect on the growing that we've made in 2021.

Last but not least, we are proud to introduce our latest new team members. Check the entire story:
https://mailchi.mp/elementalwatermakers/water-as-a-driver-for-cooperation

2021: Despite another year dictated by restrictions, we at Elemental Water Makers were able to initiate and commission more clean water projects than ever before to achieve our mission of solving and overcome .

Although global progress on access to clean and sustainable has never been more alarming, we are proud to contribute globally with our sustainable technology as an impact-driven SME.

We have been gratefully working on several exciting projects with for communities in , , , & , resorts in , , , & , industries in & , private properties in , & , emergency response for & , and many other projects.

In a world crowded with words, it's all about deeds.
Our impact in a nutshell:
~ 23 countries
~ 559.360 m³ freshwater produced
~ 3.064 tons of carbon dioxide avoided
~ 67% average savings

We wish you all a festive holiday season and a healthy New Year Thank you for your support, we look forward to 2022 that will bring more partnerships, innovation & access to clean water using only the sea & sunshine!

While world leaders are gathering at to discuss , we're excited to show the impact of our projects in all corners of the world.

Enjoy the full update including project references, a new brochure, the latest vacancies, and our presence at & here: https://mailchi.mp/elementalwatermakers/amidst-the-turbulence-water-is-in-the-making

Our engineers are busy building a drinking water project for a in . Their current water supply is salty and unsafe to drink. Together with an NGO, we will improve the water supply of this community with a sustainable model that not only improves , but also provides jobs, increases health and ensures resilience.

Want to partner with us for a drinking water project for a coastal community? Get in touch: https://www.elementalwatermakers.com/about-us/contact/

The latest numbers are in...
Yesterday, the United Nations published its report. Modern society's use of fossil fuels is warming the world at a rapid pace and its effects are already apparent as record , , and devastate worldwide.
Although positive developments are happening, we are still far away from reaching the Sustainable Development Goals.
As the World Health Organization (WHO) made clear, we need to at least quadruple our current efforts in ensuring access to safe drinking water to reach .

Do you want to know what you can do to help achieve the goal of achieving clean water for all?
Read it in our latest newsletter here:
https://mailchi.mp/elementalwatermakers/the-numbers-are-in

We are honored to be a part of the regional Water Talks in SE-Asia, with our CEO presenting solar desalination as a viable and sustainable answer to water scarcity. We welcome everyone in this region to join the session on Thursday, August 5th.

💧Thai Water Expo 2021 joins as part of Regional Water Talks- the first virtual conference focusing on the “Readiness of Water Sector in Economic Recovery”

💧For the water service sector – transitioning to a circular economy presents an opportunity to accelerate and scale-up recent scientific and technological advances that support greater efficiency in the sector. It is also necessary to introduce innovations and technologies in water management system which can provide a more resilient and efficient water supply system, reducing costs and improving sustainability.

You can be sure to gain insights on the Government Water Management Policy and Plan, the Role of Water Management in the circular economy, and technology currently available from this webinar. 📖 More info: https://bit.ly/2Tz6BHt

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Did you ever had to face shortages?
Water is the base for everything we do. We use it to keep hydrated, to grow food, to make products... However, today, there are still over 2.2 billion people who do not have access to safe drinking water. Compared to the water situation in developed countries, developing nations are having a hard time trying to improve the water situation for their citicens.
The lack in safe drinking water is even worse for those people who live in areas, who are often forced to drink and use unsafe water; with severe consequences on their and .

The latest report made clear that, in order to reach , we will have to at least quadruple our current efforts in ensuring access to , and drinking water. In case you are interested, please find the full report here: https://data.unicef.org/resources/progress-on-household-drinking-water-sanitation-and-hygiene-2000-2020/

At Elemental Water Makers, we are happy to contribute our part in making affordable & clean drinking water for remote coastal communities. We have sucessfully built drinking water projects in , , & and are currently building projects in and . Of course, we remain available to work with local governments, NGOs and bilateral & development organizations to help them improve access to clean water for these . The time to act on water is now!

The latest numbers of the United Nations & World Health Organization (WHO) are in: 1 in 4 people or 2 billion people around the world still lack safe drinking water in 2021. The large majority of these people live in remote areas.

To reach , we need to 10-fold our efforts in the least developed countries. You will find the full report here: https://data.unicef.org/resources/progress-on-household-drinking-water-sanitation-and-hygiene-2000-2020/

We are pleased to share we have a sustainable solution to make affordable clean drinking water for coastal decentralized communities. We are already building drinking water projects in , & . These Least Developed Countries have the furthest to go and it will be especially challenging to accelerate progress in fragile contexts. Many more countries are facing challenges in extending services to rural areas and to poor and vulnerable populations who are most at risk of being left behind and face climate change.

We remain available to work with local governments, NGO's and bilateral + development organizations to help them improve access to clean water for these decentralized communities. The time to act is on water now!



https://data.unicef.org/resources/progress-on-household-drinking-water-sanitation-and-hygiene-2000-2020/

Progress on household drinking water, sanitation and hygiene, 2000-2020 - UNICEF DATA book Publications Progress on household drinking water, sanitation and hygiene, 2000-2020 Five years into the SDGs July 2021 The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development commits UN member states to take bold and transformative steps to ‘shift the world onto a sustainable and resilient path’, ‘r...

In Curacao, water resources are scarce and water supply is dependent on expensive fossil powered . Whereas the island's water supply is reliable, it is still very expensive, causing high water bills for both private residences, villas, industries and resorts.

We are proud of having commisioned a new project on . From now on, a resort has gained access to a containerized independent water supply that is 70% less expensive compared to the grid-rates. By using 240 kWh of energy, the Efficient Water Maker produces 90 m³ of fresh water per day, and avoids 180 tons of carbon emissions.

Follow the link to learn more about the project:
https://www.elementalwatermakers.com/projects/curacao/