Warka-Water, Ethiopia

WarkaWater is designed to provide clean water
WarkaWater is designed to provide clean water

The 30ft high bamboo ‘flower basket’ that can pluck drinking water from thin air
• Structures use condensation to take water from the air in morning fog
• Can be built by villagers and transported to most needed areas by donkey
• Designed to be used in Ethiopia where wells cannot be dug

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100% Renewable Energy Is Feasible and Affordable, According to Stanford Proposal

“One of the greatest promises of the high-tech future, whether made explicitly or implicitly through shiny clean concept sketches, is that we will have efficient energy that doesn’t churn pollutants into the air and onto the streets.

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Extracting Water from Air

The AirDrop irrigation system extracts moisture from the air.
The AirDrop irrigation system extracts moisture from the air.

Developing efficient methods for extracting moisture from the air (condensing atmospheric humidity) has long been a goal of scientists and engineers. The AirDrop irrigation system by Edward Linnacre is one of the more recent inventions for extracting water from the surrounding air.

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