Thursday, October 19, 2017

Portable fog-harvesting AQUAIR harvests clean drinking water from thin air

Water scarcity doesn’t just affect those in arid climates—areas in humid tropics also lack access to freshwater sources. National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) students in Taiwan tackle these water issues with AQUAIR, a portable fog-harvesting device that pulls potable water out of the air. Designed for use in remote mountainous areas in tropical latitudes, AQUAIR can be easily assembled with the addition of locally sourced materials with future aims of open source production. Though...

from Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building https://inhabitat.com/portable-fog-harvesting-aquair-harvests-clean-drinking-water-from-thin-air
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