Increasingly, Tempest's self-contained mobile water purification systems have been in demand for disaster relief around the world. Tempest's approach to treating water with small, free-standing systems represents a significant departure from traditional methods of water purification and supply. Historically, providing a community with drinking water has involved building a large, centralized treatment plant with a network of water lines running out to consumers. These systems take an average of seven years to design and build and are costly to construct, operate and maintain. It used to be that to get telephone service to outlying areas, you had to build a network of poles and lines.
Cellular technology allows communities to skip all that.
Our technology is doing the same for clean drinking water. Tempest says key decision-makers in government and industry recognize that traditional approaches to water purification are outdated. The World Bank recently declared that traditional macro water purification projects are uneconomical investments-they are looking for alternatives. And Tempest was recently appointed to the Environmental Technology Trade Advisory Committee, which reports to congressional committees on promising environmental technologies. They, too, have expressed an interest in Tempest's approach to water purification.