About us - Solar Water

The provider of breakthrough, innovative technology for the generation of fresh water in a carbon neutral and completely sustainable manner, utilising the concentrating power of sunlight.

COMPANY HISTORY

Solar Water Plc was founded in 2016 by Malcolm Aw, the inventor of the Solar Water^TM dome and its technologies.

Solar Water Plc was founded in 2016 by Malcolm Aw, the inventor of the Solar WaterTM dome and its technologies.Malcolm used his own private capital to finance the business through the initial research and development phase. He has had a long and illustrious career as an inventor, lateral thinker, geopolitical economist and entrepreneur in many countries.

He is passionate about the application of Solar WaterTM’s potential to make world-changing impacts by the plentiful provision of fresh water.

Since Malcolm started the company he has been joined by Chief Executive Officer; David Reavley and now by an expanded team who together are scaling the business around the world.

They all share the same passion and vision that Solar Water Plc was founded on: to help solve chronic water shortages, by harnessing solar power to produce inexhaustible supplies of fresh water in an environmentally friendly way, without reliance on fossil fuels.

OUR VISION

To affect climate change in a positive way through the application of massive water recovery, generation and reforestation technology.

To produce an inexhaustible supply of water for sustainable livelihood and socio-economic development and to improve health and well-being.

Using solar power to produce desalinated water for agricultural, industrial and domestic use in an environmentally friendly process.

To reduce global reliance on expensive, energy-intensive and polluting desalination methods, that generate a growing carbon footprint.

WE WILL…

Provide fresh water generation in regions where shortages are becoming acute and where current methods of production are no longer environmentally sustainable.

Produce hydro-infrastructure that is economical, carbon neutral and completely sustainable and that produces ongoing amounts of fresh water for multiple uses.

In January 2018, Solar Water Plc was announced as the winner of the prestigious Rushlight Water Treatment Award in a ceremony held at the Royal Geographical Society, London. This was in recognition of the project being a world-first for carbon neutral hydro-infrastructure.