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2017 Golden Pin Concept Design Award, AQUAIR by National Cheng Kung University students, fog harvesting collection, fog harvesting portable device, portable water collection system, centrifugal water collection

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...

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Land Art Generator Initiative Santa Monica winners address California’s energy needs and drought

Teams from all around the world competed in the competition, and the first place winners are based in Tokyo, Japan....

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Beer made from harvested fog wets whistles of parched communities in Chile

An arid desert is probably a great place to enjoy a refreshing cold one, but it’s the last place on Earth you’d...

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World’s largest fog harvester produces water from thin air in the Moroccan desert

Moroccan NGO Dar Si Hamad has built the world's largest fog harvester, which provides water for those in dire need...

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Warka Water tower that pulls drinking water from thin air wins World Design Impact Prize

Designed by Arturo Vittori and his Italian studio Architecture and Vision, Warka Water is a water-catchment system...

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MIT develops advanced fog harvesting material that pulls 5x more water from thin air

Plants and certain animals like the fog beetle can survive in very arid regions because they've developed ways...

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Help fund the brilliant Warka Water tower to pull drinking water out of thin air

The Warka Water project was inspired by a trip the design team took in 2012 to isolated villages in northeast Ethiopia...

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The Cloud Harvester Catches and Stores Fresh Water from Fog

The Cloud Harvester is an ingenious device that is designed to catch and condense fog into water droplets which,...

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Towering Fog Garden Harvests Water From Thin Air

Fog is moisture. And in some places in the world, it's the only kind of moisture. This is true in the Atacama Desert...

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Fog & Dew Collectors for clean drinking water

Alon Alex Gross’s fog and dew collectors provide a low-tech way for people in arid, developing regions to collect...

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