Aquasphere® System: |
Reverse Osmosis systems: |
No conventional water source |
Seawater is a must or any other municipal water |
Contains 20 PPM of TDS and can be completely 0 PPM of TDS |
Level of 350 PPM of TDS is the minimum that this system can not remove. (1% of the 35,000 PPM of TDS) |
No need for pre-construction |
Require pumping stations before and after the system. Also need a beach well for better performance |
Expected life of any model is 15 years |
Life expected 2 -3 years only |
No effect in its major components; does not require seawater to go throughout its components |
Major effect on all the system when allowing the seawater to pass through its components, thus reducing the life expectation for the membranes |
Provide national security by securing the 2nd most important element for human being |
Will not work if seawater got contaminated by actions of wars or a simple oil spill due to accidents in the oil industry. It requires 35,000 PPM of TDS only, if higher it will not work efficiently |
Environmentally friendly |
Have long term side effect in the form of its waste |
Its water test results proven that it does not contain any organic nor inorganic chemicals |
Can not remove organic chemicals; need additional costly options to be able to remove them |
No need in wasting any input quantity of water to produce its output water |
Between 2 - 20 gallons of water being wasted to produce just 1 gallon. In case of Municipal water as its main source, this means much more cost per gallon than it is advertise for |
Fixed price and minimal replacement parts cost |
Is expensive when fully installed with all the right options. Plus it has hidden operating costs |
Can be placed close to the end-user location thus reducing the capital needed in installing and maintaining a complex water pipe network |
Have to be close to seashore and in most cases far from the end-user location |
Is valuable for remote areas that can not be lived in due to lack of water |
Can not fulfill the needs of remote area except with major capital investments |
Can be installed on industrial project by project bases thus reducing the pressure on the municipal water |
If installed on a project by project bases, it means that it will be using municipal water; thus increasing the pressure on the main countrys water supply network |