To the question of choosing the innovative technology for providing drinking water depending on technical-economic analysis

The socio-economic problem of freshwater scarcity has seriously entered the international and political agenda in the last decade of the twentieth century. On July 28, 2010, the UN General Assembly included the right to water in the list of basic human rights, and the world community recognized the expansion of access to drinking water as one of the four key components of the UN Millennium goals to ensure environmental sustainability. The complex problems of individual regions of the world in the distribution of water resources and the growing demands of humanity for living standards reflect both a gradual objective aggravation of the situation and an increase in the moral standards of global civil society in relation to the problems of inequality and lifestyle. The purpose of this study is to review existing and prospective methods of obtaining fresh water to solve socio – economic problems of providing individual regions of the world. The objectives of the study were defined: implementation of a technical and economic analysis of existing and prospective methods of obtaining fresh water based on the review. The scientific novelty of the work is technical and economic analysis of different ways including a Laval nozzle for producing water and formulating recommendations for their implementation.