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The Slingshot Research Paper

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Our planet is filled with water to be more accurate 96.5% of our planet is water but we have a big problem only the 3% of all this water is fresh water. In recent decades the planet is facing very important climatic changes and water is a natural resource and therefore this has been severely damaged. Since the industrial revolution in1760 the water pollution has been greater, reaching our rivers, lakes, streams and seas. In the last decade man has developed new technology to try to solve this problem that is affecting many people around the globe. One of the most famous is the Slingshot created by Dane Kamen this machine can transform contaminated water, salt water and sewer water in freshwater. The Slingshot have a vapor compression distiller that is between two tanks these tanks are connected by tow hoses. One of the tanks contains freshwater and the other one have bad water using solar energy distills and vaporizes contamination, and makes freshwater. This invention is now well known in the …show more content…

However, some people say that the Slingshot is to premature and can’t change nothing in the environmental problem. It is true that this technology is still in development and Dean and his team still working to do a better job on the Slingshot but still, it has been proven that in case of natural disaster like an earthquakes and floods the Slingshot has been very useful. The Slingshot in those cases makes 250 gallons a day that can satisfy the needs of 100 people. Currently Kamen and his coworkers have joined strength whit Coca Cola looking for more resources to improve his invention. The water problem demands immediate action and if we don’t take action the problem can be worst. Based on data from UNICEF more than 40 percent of the African population has no access to potable water and the world population growth can exacerbate the

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