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UAE Based Company Comes up With a Technology to Get Drinking Water From Air

Technology that derives water from air

These days scientists have come up with a mechanism that can help derive an important component from air  which is water. 

Yes, you heard it right! 

The technology is now used in the UAE. An Abu Dhabi based firm called Eshara Water has made it possible for people to get drinking water from air.

Eshara Water has come up with the advanced technology in the UAE which is a form of generator that can produce clean drinking water from air. There are billions of liters of clean water which is present in the earth’s atmosphere in the form of humidity. It is sufficient enough to take care of all our needs. Having a technology that derives this water is now currently possible. This is one of the first in the UAE. Though there are other countries who have started this initiative, Eshra is the first company to do it in the country. All that the machine needs is electricity to work.

Explaining the technology, Ed Aitken the company’s global operations director said: “It monitors and judges the relative humidity within the air and judges the temperature of the air. Then, it calculates how much it needs to change the temperature of that air in order for it to reach its dew point, i.e., the moment when the air is about to release all of its water.”

“It has never touched heavy metals on the ground or flown through pipe networks. It is so pure that it doesn’t have any taste whatsoever. For health and taste benefits, we run it across our mineralization chamber, i.e., essentially natural rocks and minerals and salts that mimic as if this water had flown through natural aquifers and come out of mountain spring. The water is made at the point of consumption, incredibly pure, fresh, chilled and healthy.”

He said that the country, as per its own and based on the UN sustainability goals ,also plans to stop the usage of plastic bottles as they are dangerous to the environment and endanger other life forms around it. Innovation can make such a thing possible and they are looking at various alternatives for this.

UAE is one of those countries which have large areas of desert stretches and lack clean natural water bodies. To attain drinking water, they rely on groundwater and the sea water which is filtered for the use of people. Both these  need to be filtered as both are saline and can’t be used without desalinating it.

A technology that derives water from air is very useful due to this and can provide sufficient water for the citizens and other people residing here. 

Article credit: Khlaleej Times

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