The Company and Deka R&D will also partner with Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group and Africare to bring the Slingshot technology to communities in need in rural parts of Latin America and Africa, respectively.
The Slingshot water purification system uses a vapour compression distillation system that runs on low levels of electricity. The system boils and evaporates any dirty water source – river water, ocean water and even raw sewage – and then allows the pure water to condense and be collected.
One Slingshot unit can purify up to 300,000 litres of water each year, which is enough daily drinking water for roughly 300 people, producing 10 gallons of clean water an hour while consuming less than a kilowatt of electricity.
The unit can be plugged into the local grid or can be powered by other locally available and renewable power sources such as solar cells, batteries, and Deka’s Stirling electric generator powered by biogases such as methane from local waste sources.
Coca-Cola and Deka R&D are working to secure partnerships with leading non-governmental organisations and development banks to help fund the projects, identify locations and support placement and on-the-ground support efforts moving forward.
Source: The Coca-Cola Company
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