Cyprus is now suffering from a severe shortage of water. The government is embarking on a process of introducing desalination plants to provide this water. I watched a Discovery Science programme on TV on which they described the the water theatre concept. I am a retired Englih instrumentation and control engineer with experience of desalination plants in the middle east and the concept has raised my interest in trying to get government in Cyprus to look at this concept in place of desalination plants.

I live near the Akrotiri peninsular which is one of the sites being propossed for a desalination plant. Less than a km from the shore the water is a 1000m deep, the air is invariably humid, even at this time of year it is 70% , but especially in the summer.

Cyprus has no natural form of energy so desalinated water would be very expensive to produce but if the energy of the sun, of which the Island has an abundance, is utilised naturally in the formation of humidity then basically, from what I understand, all that would be required is electrical energy to drive pumps and fans.

The Island is awash wth degree qualified engineers and architects would they, if the government approved the idea, be allowed to use the pricipals of the water theatre to design and develop their own version or is it covered by patents etc ?

Also do you think this technology could be used in Cyprus on a scale large enough to produce fresh water for approx. 800000 people.

Regards,

Alan Wall - Souni-Zanatzia, Cyprus