Solor Distiller Produces Pure Drinking Water

Solor Distiller Produces Pure Drinking Water FARM HOME Miscellaneous 27-4-30 Following nature's example, a Texas company has put together a solar water distiller that can provide an average household with all the pure drinking water it needs. SolAqua, the manufacturer, says it has been selling the solar distiller all over the world. It can even make drinking water from salt water. The distiller has no moving parts and has a carbon filter to prevent any contamination of the final output. The still consists of a glass-covered evaporation table, a supply fill port, an overflow port and a distilled output collection port. Water is poured in through the fill port once a day. It can be done manually or you can plumb it into your water lines. Purified water collects in a separate chamber and runs out the distilled output collection port. If the still is mounted on a roof or in another area that's not easily accessible, the distilled water can be piped to a collection container that is easy to get to. Because there are no moving parts, maintaining the still is simple. Flushing the evaporation basin as described above is all that's necessary. Because it uses natural evaporation rather than boiling, solar stills produce pure water that is free of off-tastes from minerals or the flat taste that boiling can leave in distilled water. The solar distiller, called the Rainmaker 550, sells for $450. If you'd rather build your own solar still, the company offers a do-it-yourself kit, which includes plans and tubing, screens and some plumbing parts for $235. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, SolAqua, Box 4976, El Paso, Texas 79914 (ph 915 822-1132 or toll-free 866 765-2782; fax 915 822-9886; website: www.solaqua.com).

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