Abstract
The problem of water supply worsens every day due to multiple factors such as population growth, the effects of climate change and incorrect management of water resources. In the search for new sources of supply, in some coastal regions fresh water is obtained directly from the sea through a reverse osmosis process, which requires a large amount of energy, typically obtained using fossil fuels. To reduce the ecological impact, it is desirable that this energy comes from a renewable source, so the purposes of this work were a) to run a field test of a wave-powered pump which could be used to supply pressurized water to a commercial reverse osmosis system, and b) to monitor the possible aggregation of marine organisms to the anchoring system.