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Omayed Biosphere Reserve is in Egypt located close to Alexandria and has been extended to an area of 70,000 hectares in 1998. There are many different bedouin tribes in the area, which supports some 5,500 people (as per 1997 census).
solar water desalination system is established with four solar panels in the desert.
Christoph Nolte wrote in Biosphere
http://www.biosphere-tour.org/en/b_article.php?id=20
The desalination unit is the only affordable source of healthy water for the bedouin families that settled in Omayed only a decade ago. "Before the construction, the bedouins drank piped water from Alexandria or used the water from the irrigation channels", explains engineer Andreas Schneider: "The terrible quality lead to kidney failures and death of people that were not even 20 years old. Water filters were sometimes used, but the bedouins didn't understand their principle and forgot to change the filters, which became breeding grounds for bacteria cultures. Bottled water was a healthy alternative - but much too expensive for the people living here."
here is the report on how this pilot project works and how it saved the water crisis for bedouin tribes in Awlad Gebriel Village.
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