Water availability and security is one of the biggest challenges facing the world today. The sea provides an abundance of water, but to be usable, it must be desalinated. 300 million people benefit daily from desalination, but uses a massive amount of electricity. GE ecomagination and Wa'ed, Saudi Aramco's entrepreneurship center, have launched a global open innovation challenge to find more sustainable solutions for seawater desalination.

1. water from salt:
ge’s global challenge to find renewable
energy solutions for desalination

2. Water availability and security is one of the
biggest challenges facing the world today
The sea provides an abundance of water, but to
be useable, it must be desalinated

3. desalination by the numbers
Desalination plants
worldwide:
15,988
Total global capacity of all
desalination plants worldwide:
66.5 million
cubic meters/day
Source: International Desalination Association

4. The Hamma Seawater Desalination Plant in Algeria
Capacity:
200,000
cubic meters of water
Provides
2 million residents
of Algiers with drinkable water.

5. The Hamma Seawater Desalination plant uses seawater
reverse osmosis… see how it works in this video

6. 300 million people
benefit daily from desalination

7. Global production of desalinated
water uses approximately
75.2 terawatt-hours of
electricity per year,
enough to power nearly
7 million homes

8. GE ecomagination and Wa’ed, Saudi Aramco’s
entrepreneurship center, have launched a global
open innovation challenge to find more sustainable
solutions for seawater desalination

9. New solutions need to reduce cost and
increase efficiency by using…
R E N E WAB L E E N E R G Y
S O U R C E S
AD VAN C E D
M AT E R I AL S
B E T T E R
P R O C E S S E S

10. Entries are being immediately accepted at:
www.ninesights.com/community/ecomagination
Entry deadline: July 16, 2014
Winners announced: September 2014
The most innovative solutions will be selected by a
panel of GE and Saudi Aramco judges.