Proposal

Establish Project Organization                          Done!
Initiate Funding, Lobby Action processes           Started!
Purchase ship
Refit Ship and Adapt OTEC Plant
Distribute Water
Establish Agricultural Demand
Convert to Land-Based Plant
Establish Refrigerated Port Facility

The multiphase purchase, refit, construction, marine plant operation, sales & distribution, re-plant, construction and facilities management requires a consistent, coordinated, determined management organization.

Refitting the ship and plant could become a workforce development/ rehabilitation program for a major US city. That could grow into an established business of it’s own.

The initial “challenge” will be distributing large quantities of potable water to areas unprepared for it. A tanker vessel capable of carrying it’s own barges could enable rapid exploitation of the new resource.

"More than a billion people in the world’s poor rural areas do not have access to clean drinking water, and another billion people lack access to affordable small-plot irrigation. Yet, the world’s experts in water and sanitation on the one hand, and irrigation on the other hand, rarely talk to each other, much less collaborate." Transforming Rural Water Access Into Profitable Business Opportunities Paul Polak, Deepak Adhikari, Bob Nanes, Dan Salter and Sudarshan Surywanshi, International Development Enterprises, 2002.

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