The scale model operates under the same conditions that the full-size project will. This allows Poseidon to demonstrate the reliability and viability of the technology, and confirm that appropriate environmental safeguards are in place and working properly.

Tours are scheduled so guests can see the intake area where seawater enters the system and then watch as it is processed into high quality drinking water in 20 minutes. They can even taste the product water right on-site.

Observers can see the on-site desalination fish tank, a 120-gallon aquarium where the most sensitive local sea dwellers are flourishing in the by-product water from the desalination process.