To move from water scarcity to abundance, Elemental Water Makers makes affordable safe water from the sea & sun by awarded solar-powered desalination technology
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Women & girls spend 250M hours daily collecting water.🕒💧This #WorldWaterDay 2026, we’re celebrating how solar desalination empowers 200k people across Madagascar, Somalia, & Yemen.
Where water flows, equality grows: 📈
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#WaterEquality #Sustainability
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One of the biggest hurdles in sustainable development isn’t the technology, it’s the upfront cost.
We’re solving this with Phased Desalination. Our modular systems allow resorts, communities, villas, industries, and municipalities to "Grow as You Go:
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23 Dec 2025
3.275 billion liters of fresh water in 37 countries.
2025 was the year sustainable desalination went global. While the challenges of access to clean water are increasing, our decentralised solutions are ramping up.
Thank you for all your support. Bring on 2026.
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7 Aug 2025
How much would it cost to get a consistent supply of clean water for your project, no matter how remote?
Learn how to turn sunshine and seawater into a sustainable, cost-effective water solution. Dive in to see how much you could save!
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18 Dec 2024
It’s the time for end-of-year reflections. 2024 has been a year defined by extremes. In our case, equivalent to 1000 Olympic swimming pools. We want to thank our team, users, partners, friends, family and everyone else for helping us. #impact #desalination #sustainable #SDG6
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4 Nov 2024
Being in the solar desalination business for 12,5 years calls for a celebration. @Elemental_Water is producing clean water using only the sea and sunshine in over 30 countries and for over 200.000 people in developing communities. 🚰
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9 Jul 2024
They say if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. We get this a lot.
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.
Check out how we realize 70% savings:
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1 Jul 2024
@SaveChildrenSO officially handed over the Hafun desalination plant to the Puntland Ministry of Energy, Mineral, & Water. This solar-powered plant will provide 88,000L of clean water daily to 35,000 people in Hafun, #Somalia.
Thanks to @Elemental_Water and @liquidiv
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19 Jun 2024
Enabling life in the desert. 💧 Water is Life 🌱
We recently commissioned a solar-powered #desalination solution at the Jojoba for Namibia Trust so that the people and the seedlings will never be without fresh water again.
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25 Mar 2024
In Hafun #Somalia, lack of clean drinking water was one of the biggest challenges for the community. Together with @Elemental_Water, @SavetheChildrenSO has been working on a solution – a solar desalination plant! 🌊☀️
Watch the Impact 👇
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22 Mar 2024
Today, March 22 is our favourite day of the year: #WorldWaterDay.
Water for peace is this year's theme.
We are proud to share two examples of how we contribute by providing clean water for over 30.000 people in Gaza and Somalia:
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29 Feb 2024
"Africa is a booming continent." - Sid Vollebregt. Discover how solar-powered desalination is riding the wave of innovation to combat water scarcity ⬇️
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19 Jan 2024
#CNN recently shot an item on green desalination that aired globally.
''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:
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21 Dec 2023
It's been an amazing year.
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.
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11 Nov 2023
Dutch company Elemental Water Makers is harnessing the power of the sea and sun to provide affordable, clean drinking water to rural communities across the world.
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3 Nov 2023
We are going big on CNN! This Going Green special is about water, where our solar desalination technology plays a major role. It will air on your local CNN this Saturday:
- 6:30 am and 8 pm CET
- 1:30 pm and Sunday 3 am HKT
- 1:30 am and 3 pm EDT
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2 Nov 2023
Water is one of the most precious resources yet human actions are putting it in peril.
Catch the next episode of Going Green this Saturday, 1:30pm HKT on @cnni to explore the innovations protecting and purifying water.
@CapeRadd @Elemental_Water @EpicCleantec @Glanris
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24 Jul 2023
Access to drinking water is a basic human right! With #desalination technology @Elemental_Water and @CARE_Nederland make clean drinking water from seawater in our #Yemen Joint Response. Read about this great #innovative project! 👇
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6 Jun 2023
With droughts lurking globally, it's the time of the year that desalination becomes a hot topic. We have a different approach, using 70% less energy, avoiding chemicals & ensuring stress-free operation.
For real? Yes, we do it in over 25 countries:
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ElementalWaterMakers retweeted
22 Mar 2023
Around the 🌍 some
🚰 2.2 billion people lack safe drinking water
🚽 4.2 billion lack sanitation
💧 700 million people could be displaced due to scarcity of water by 2030
This #WorldWaterDay, see how we are accelerating change and taking #WaterAction: undp.org/water
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