Concluding an awareness campaign for Al-Sa'ada desalination plant in Khan Younis, the first electrolysis and solar-powered desalination plant in Palestine, funded by USAID through UNICEF.
As Part of the First Project of Its Kind for Water Desalination in the Gaza Strip..
CMWU Concludes the Awareness Campaign for Al-Sa'ada Plant in Khan Younis.
Khan Younis – CMWU concluded a public awareness campaign specific to Al-Sa'ada water desalination plant project in Khan Younis governorate, south of the Strip, which included several workshops with residents, as well as home visits to more than 140 families of the area's residents, as well as awareness and guidance segments inside a number of schools in Khan Younis governorate.
The campaign aimed to strengthen residents' participation in preserving the desalinated water from the desalination plant, by filling water as needed and ensuring taps are closed after filling and not sending children to fill water, as well as preserving the desalinated water filling points by maintaining the place's cleanliness and the taps' integrity, as well as periodically cleaning water reservoirs, with the workshops including several diverse awareness and guidance topics.
It is worth noting that Al-Sa'ada plant, which operates with a desalination system that is the first of its kind in Palestine, began operation in 2016 in Khan Younis governorate and will benefit more than 3,000 people, with CMWU constructing this project with generous funding from the American people's assistance program (USAID) through UNICEF, including installing and operating an experimental water desalination plant at Al-Sa'ada station, which operates by separating ions through electrolysis, operating on renewable (solar) energy to avoid the problem of recurring power outages, which causes a severe shortage in the quantities of water produced at the main desalination plant at Al-Sa'ada water reservoir.
The project's idea is considered a first and pioneering experiment in the Gaza Strip, and the project included installing a small water desalination plant comprising (24) solar cells and (30) batteries with a capacity of (120) amps each, with an inverter device, and providing a water reservoir with a capacity of (5,000) liters and another of the same capacity to hold the desalinated water, a water network for feeding and discharge, two basins, and a set of external water taps for external use.
The project relies mainly on using the electrolysis property to desalinate groundwater, using special filters based on ion exchange, using two oppositely charged electrodes, one positive connected to the battery's positive terminal and the other negative connected to the battery's negative terminal, and since the salts dissolved in water are in an ionized state, the positive ions such as sodium ions are attracted towards the negative electrode, and the negative ions such as chlorine are attracted towards the positive electrode, and the water passes through having gotten rid of a large part of its salts, with the renewable-energy desalination plant producing about (1,000) liters of fresh water per hour.
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