Author : Akhilesh S.Pawar, Sumit K.Phadke,Ravikiran D.Kulat, Nitin B.Koli and Shivaji P.Yadav

Water scarcity is a growing problem for large regions of the world. The primary drivers of increasing water scarcity are population growth and the higher consumption associated with rising standards of living. Access to safe, fresh and pure clean drinking water is one of the major and biggest problems in different parts of the world. Among many of water purification technologies solar desalination/distillation/purification is one of the most sustainable and attractive method employed to meet the supply of clean and pure drinkable water in remote areas at a very reasonable cost. However this article provides the comprehensive review of solar still which is used at domestic level. Though the solar still have not been successfully commercialized as yet, with the ongoing research efforts, they can be modified and improved for future domestic applications.

Keywords: Domestic solar still, Desalination, Single basin single slope solar still, Single basin double slope solar still Pyramidal still, Performance, Efficiency