Portable Solar Desalination Delivers Water Security to Remote Tongan Islands

SYDNEY, Sept. 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Two remote communities in Tonga's Vava'u island group have gained a reliable source of safe drinking water following the installation of Elemental Water Makers solar-powered desalination systems on Hunga and Matamaka.

Delivered by Australian water-solutions company Bluemont Pty Ltd in partnership with Dutch technology provider Elemental Water Makers, the project converts seawater into fresh water using reverse osmosis powered entirely by the sun. Each unit can produce up to 4,300 litres of WHO-standard drinking water a day, giving the two communities a combined capacity of up to 8,600 litres.

For residents traditionally depending on rainwater harvesting, the installations provide vital protection against drought and unpredictable rainfall. When tanks run dry, remote island communities can face water rationing or the high cost and logistical difficulty of bringing bottled water in by boat. Local production helps keep money within the communities while supporting better health, sanitation, education and everyday wellbeing.

"It was life changing for me as well as the villagers who now have a reliable source of clean drinking water for the first time ever. With the declaration of the 'Super El Nino' this work could not be more important," Paul Hart, Director of Bluemont Pty. Ltd.

Emphasizing local ownership, the project trained ten community members per island—with at least five participants from each community being women—alongside a Tonga Water Board representative to operate and maintain the systems. Designed for 15 years of service, these low-maintenance, solar-powered installations strengthen climate resilience in isolated communities without fossil fuels.

Bluemont led the planning, transport, installation and commissioning effort, working with Elemental Water Makers, Pacific Technologies New Zealand, Tonga Water Board Poate Vai 'O Tonga and the people of Hunga and Matamaka. The project also received grant support through Powering Renewable Energy Opportunities (PREO).

Bluemont is now discussing a proposal with the Tongan Government that could seek Asian Development Bank support for solar desalination across a further 23 remote communities. While that expansion is not yet confirmed, Hunga and Matamaka already offer a model for locally operated, inclusive and sustainable water security across the Pacific.

For more on solar water desalination, visit:

• https://www.bluemont.com.au/water-desalination/
• https://www.bluemont.nz/water-desalination/

About Bluemont

Bluemont delivers sustainable solutions for managing water, erosion, fire, and flood risks in remote and emergency situations. Contact info@bluemont.com.au for details.

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Portable Solar Desalination Delivers Water Security to Remote Tongan Islands

An industry first governance layer that unifies cost, delivery and output for contingent teams

SYDNEY, Sept. 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- ProHance, the AI-led Productivity Control Room platform for enterprises, today announced the launch of a unified platform for measuring and improving performance for outsourced and contingent teams.

Enterprises now will get a governance layer that provides independent unified proof of what their contingent workforce actually delivers, providing a single source of truth to finance, delivery and vendor management teams.

Now Enterprises can reallocate idle capacity, validate invoices, negotiate renewals based on evidence, flag delivery risk before it materializes, and provide audit teams with a defensible record.

Contingent workforce management has evolved from a function focused on vendor onboarding, contracts and compliance into a strategic capability contributing to over 20% of the workforce. However the technology to manage performance of this workforce has not been able to control cost leakage as it can only provide evidence that work occurred.

ProHance built the platform around three measures that determine contingent workforce performance:

• CostLeakage— Clear governance of what is being spent against what is delivered
• SLA Adherence — Improving predictability of delivery within time-and-materials engagements
• Output — optimizing the value the workforce creates, in addition to utilization

The platform tracks all three in one place, giving Finance, Delivery and Vendor Management the same data instead of each team working from its own tool moving from fragmented ownership to joint governance.

ProHance is launching this after deploying it across Fortune 100 companies, where it has been tested and validated to give the right insights.

"Every system an enterprise runs today can tell it what it bought. None of them can tell it what it got," said Ankur Dhingra, CEO, ProHance. "With this platform, we're building a single source of truth for contingent teams — the same defensible number for Finance, Delivery and Vendor Management to act on, measured from the work itself instead of what the vendor reports. That's the gap we built this to close, starting with outsourced and contingent teams, where existing tools go blind."

About ProHance

ProHance is an AI-led Productivity Control Room platform giving enterprises real-time visibility into productivity, operations and workforce performance. Trusted by more than 450,000 users across 55+ countries, ProHance was named Star Performer in the Everest Group PEAK Matrix® 2026. Visit www.prohance.ai.

 

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ProHance Launches a Unified Platform for Actionable insights on Contingent Teams