MNL Consulting is working with several technology groups that are developing new advanced technologies that will allow us to develop water reclamation projects, which will benefit not only communities but also regions. Hundreds of millions of people will be affected by drought in the coming decades worldwide. Worldwide agriculture consumes about 70% of the world's fresh water, and nearly 90% in developing countries. Over the past half-century 40% of the world's wetlands have been lost. The world's water consists of saltwater 97.5%, freshwater 2.5%, glaciers 68.9%, groundwater 30.8%, lakes and rivers 0.3%. Between droughts and water-borne diseases are responsible for over 80%of illnesses and deaths in third world and developing countries, killing a child every 8 seconds.

MNL has been working with humanitarian organizations on well water projects for small outlined communities in Africa. Working to provide potable water is vital to the future of humanity. Ground water and water tributaries are currently the most promising sources of potable water in the world.

We have even been researching and working on the technology to extract drinking water from the air, which has been around for several years now. The key to developing a processing plant that extract water from the air economically on a large scale will play a primary role in the future of this technology.

Large Scale Seawater Desalination Reverse Osmosis Projects

Compounded by the lack of adequate storage capacity, to regulate the water supply to support communities during drought and dry cycles is a reality that most governments are concerned about. To accomplish these goals, sustainable alternative fresh water sources must be developed quickly; not only to meet the current demand in an environmentally correct manner, protect wetland environments and support continued economic growth in a community or region.

By focusing on developing alternative resources for producing drinking water for communities around the world, governments are researching and planning desalination projects. The plan is a phased reduction in groundwater usage by implementing advanced technology such as seawater desalination process to produce fresh drinking water.

The reverse osmosis plant selected to supply a large community with potable drinking water uses a brine staging design concept for desalination of seawater and brackish water, using 4 delivery systems each with the capacity of 1,750 m3/d. A production process of 7,000 m3/d of potable drinking water. This plant was designed with a filtration system for brackish water containing 5 g/l of dissolved salt. With a 75 m3/d potable water production capacity expected to fulfill the needs of the community.

Emergency Relief Projects

Companies and organizations are researching temporary solutions as well as long term solutions to these problems that face many regions worldwide. One answer to this growing problem is to focus on viable short-term solutions to supplying a community with life giving drinking water, until a more long-term solution can be afforded. One solution to providing emergency relief in potable water is energy efficient modularized desalination plants that can be trucked or airdropped into communities that are in dire need of water.

Thus the quest and research began in finding a solution to such an undertaking. The answer was to focus on modularized mobile facilities that would bring relief to communities. After researching many types of systems and effectiveness of the resources at hand, we turned our attention to desalination technology. Desalination technology is perfect for providing potable drinking water from a number of base water such as seawater, brackish water and groundwater.

The next step was to find desalination plants that were compact, durable, efficient and reliable for our purposes. After careful study we found that there were a couple companies that already met our standards. Basically these small mobile desalination plants will offer the following.