With an estimated 663 million people lacking access to safe drinking water, technology like Source could go a long way towards improving lives across the globe. Sunlight + Air = Clean Water When a family in Guayaquil, Ecuador turns on the tap for a glass of water, it doesn't flow from city pipes—there are no city pipes. Instead, a new type of solar panel in the backyard turns moisture in the air into clean drinking water and sends it inside the family's bamboo home. The panels, developed by Zero Mass Water, harvest the energy required to evaporate the water to purify it. Finally, the water runs through a mineral block, which improves its taste and nutritional value. A single panel can provide drinking and cooking water for a family of four, and businesses or hospitals can scale up with multiple panels. The Right to Potable Water According to the World Health Organization, 663 million people, roughly 10 percent of the world’s population, don’t have access to safe water. It’s a massive challenge brought on by poor infrastructure and difficult living conditions. Developments like Source could address these problems by being much more flexible than city-regulated piping. Zero Mass Water reports that their tech doesn’t need to be hooked up to a home’s electrical system or a power grid and is 100 percent renewable. The company has installed panels in pilot programs in Ecuador, Jordan, Mexico, and the U.S., and will install in more countries over the next few weeks. In 2017, they plan to scale up to larger systems. Eventually, they're hoping the panels become ubiquitous. "When you think about solar today, what do you think about? Electricity," he says. "Everybody thinks that way. I think that in a few years when people think about solar they'll also think about water abundance.” Perhaps in the future, when you turn on the tap to get a glass of water, it’ll be flowing straight from panels on your roof instead of pipes in the ground. Thank you to our friends at Futurism for providing the original article below. Source: http://futurism.com/these-solar-panels-can-pull-drinking-water-straight-from-the-air/
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