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technicians…So they can go out and
train the uncles and aunties out in the
islands.”
In Tuvalu, French water company,
Suez Pacific, has been training locals to
maintain the desalination units provided
by them in recent years.
Suez Pacific’s General Manager, Marc
Mocellin, says the training is critical
and “we are comfortable to say that
Tuvaluan people are managing their
desalination units well as we collaborate
with them”.
He says three new desalination
units are being installed in Tuvalu in
September.
Mocellin says Suez is looking into
the possibility of installing Starlink
satellite technology in a few months on
each of their units. “This way we can
communicate and have access to all the
data from the desalination units. It is
very valuable,” he said. Kabeea and her children near a solar water distillation unit

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