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With this book I hope to raise awareness about the technology revolution that can make both water and energy obtainable for all. Still more than a billion (=109; note that billion in Europe means 1012) people lack access to both clean water and clean energy. Today renewable energy is becoming affordable for the underprivileged. Solar and wind energy are abundant in many regions outside the national power grids. Decentralised water treatment technology is available. The book is aimed at different categories of readers: • The water professional who wishes to learn about renewable energy: you can skip some of the water technology descriptions; • The power engineer looking for applications of renewable off- grid energy: you can omit the basic information about solar PV and wind turbines; • The policy-maker: no need to understand all the technical details. Still you can appreciate the enormous potential of off- grid renewable energy for water operations; • The investor: this is one of the most meaningful investments that you can make; • The student: the future energy source is renewable. This has huge consequences for water supply. You must be familiar with it. Preface and Guide for the Reader © 2019 The Author. This is an Open Access book chapter distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which permits copying and redistribution for non-commercial purposes with no derivatives, provided the original work is properly cited (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). This does not affect the rights licensed or assigned from any third party in this book. The chapter is from the book Clean Water Using Solar and Wind: Outside the Power Grid, Gustaf Olsson (Author). doi: 10.2166/9781780409443_xxi Downloaded from https://iwaponline.com/ebooks/book-pdf/520710/wio9781780409443.pdf by IWA Publishing user