Israeli company that makes water out of thin air signs deal with Uzbekistan

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Times Of Israel

Dry, landlocked Central Asian nation to buy thousands of Watergen atmospheric water generators in deal likely worth several million dollars

Sue Surkes

Nov. 1 2019

The government of Uzbekistan has signed a memorandum of understanding with an Israel-based company that literally produces clean drinking water out of thin air.

The deal, estimated to be worth several million dollars, will see thousands of Watergen atmospheric water generators dispatched to cities and towns in the Central Asian country.

 

The MOU follows a successful Watergen pilot at an orphanage in the city of Bukhara.

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The technology was developed by engineers working alongside entrepreneur Arye Kohavi, a former combat reconnaissance company commander in the Israeli Army. It uses a series of filters to purify the air. After the air is sucked in and chilled to extract its humidity, the water that forms is treated and transformed into clean drinking water. The technology uses a plastic heat exchanger rather than an aluminum one, which helps reduce costs; it also includes a proprietary software that operates the devices.

Each GEN-M water generator weighs 780 kilograms (1,720 pounds) and can produce up to 800 liters (210 gallons) of water per day. With its own internal water treatment system, the only infrastructure needed is an electricity source.

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Those Darn Jews are at It Again!!!

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So are those yankees:

Water harvester makes it easy to quench your thirst in the desert

With water scarcity a growing problem worldwide, University of California, Berkeley, researchers are close to producing a microwave-sized water harvester that will allow you to pull all the water you need directly from the air — even in the hot, dry desert.

In a paper appearing this week in ACS Central Science, a journal of the American Chemical Society, UC Berkeley’s Omar Yaghi and his colleagues describe the latest version of their water harvester, which can pull more than five cups of water (1.3 liters) from low-humidity air per day for each kilogram (2.2 pounds) of water-absorbing material, a very porous substance called a metal-organic framework, or MOF. That is more than the minimum required to stay alive.

During field tests over three days in California’s arid Mojave Desert, the harvester reliably produced 0.7 liters per kilogram of absorber per day — nearly three cups of clean, pure H₂O. That’s 10 times better than the previous version of the harvester. The harvester cycles 24/7, powered by solar panels and a battery.

Even on the driest day in the desert, with an extremely low relative humidity of 7% and temperatures over 80 degrees Fahrenheit, the harvester produced six ounces (0.2 liters) of water per kilogram of MOF per day.