Just 1% of the world’s water is drinkable. GE provides desalination technologies to transform seawater into drinkable water.

With the 19,000 registered students from NYC area schools, the GE Water & Process Technologies booth was happening. We had many science students interested in learning more about water treatment solutions …..specifically desalination. One high schooler came by to ask detailed (and I mean really detailed) questions about how desalination works. He was so impressed that one of our desalination plants provides 53 million gallons of drinking water a day from seawater. He’s going to be attending Harvard in coming years and we hope that he will help develop the Next technologies for water sustainability……Discovery channel also visited while I was explaining how membrane treatments worked. Look for the show in March ‘07 on Discovery to learn more. Stop by to check out the water game and see if you can build a wastewater treatment plant and be the one to separate pure water from contaminants the fastest!