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<keyword id="4360619" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="watergen" source="Orion">Watergen</keyword>, the atmospheric drinking water devices (AWG), on Tuesday announced its partnership with <keyword id="67707" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="hockey-india" source="Orion">Hockey India</keyword> as a sustainability partner for providing 'drinking water from air' for FIH Odisha Hockey Men's <keyword id="22177" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="world-cup" source="Orion">World Cup</keyword> 2023 <keyword id="50863" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="bhubaneswar" source="Orion">Bhubaneswar</keyword> - Rourkela from January 13-29, 2023.<br /><br />Watergen will be providing fresh, high-quality, mineralized &amp; safe drinking water created from ambient air to everyone present at the grounds of Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar and Birsa Munda International Hockey Stadium, Rourkela. <br /><br />The company will be placing its various products including GEN-L which creates up to 6000L of water, GEN-M Pro which creates up to 900L of water &amp; GENNY which can produce up to 30L in both stadia for general public use as well as in the VIP lounge and office areas. Together, these machines are estimated to generate over 2 Lakh litres of water which will not only be fresh, clean and hygienic but also free of cost. Watergen's trained staff and technical team will also be present on the ground to address and assist with the usage of these machines. <br /><br />Sharing his insights on the association, Hockey India president Padma Shri Dilip Tirkey said, "Water is an integral part of any sport and as millions of people follow sports, we at Hockey India have an opportunity to inspire the world to adopt sustainable practices. Hockey India is proud to appoint Watergen as its official supplier of 'Water from Air' to everyone present at the stadia during the FIH Odisha Hockey Men's World Cup 2023 Bhubaneswar-Rourkela."<br /><br />Commenting on the partnership, Maayan Mulla, CEO of Watergen India, said, "We would like to extend our gratitude to Hockey India for taking this visionary step with us to make an event of such capacity truly sustainable. This Hockey World Cup will be the world's 1st water sustainable World Cup across sports. As we all know- water is a precious resource, but it is getting scarcer day by day- Watergen provides a new source of unlimited produce of fresh and safe drinking water. As the sustainability partner of FIH Odisha Hockey Men's World Cup 2023, we are confident that awareness about our technology will result in an increase in corporates and other bodies to adopt our 'Water from Air' technology." <br /><br /><strong>SEE ALSO:<br /><a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/travel-trends-in-2023-digital-detox-regenerative-travel-and-inner-peace/articleshow/96281360.cms">Travel trends in 2023: Digital detox, regenerative travel and ‘inner peace’</a><br /></strong><a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/dengue-infections-crosses-4000-mark-in-delhi-this-year-over-500-cases-in-december-alone/articleshow/96346336.cms"><strong>Dengue infections crosses 4000-mark in Delhi this year, over 500 cases in December alone</strong></a>

Over 2 lakh litres of fresh drinking water 'made from air' will be produced during FIH Odisha Hockey WC

<ul><li><strong><keyword id="4360619" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="watergen" source="Orion">Watergen</keyword> is an <keyword id="394140" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="israeli-company" source="Orion">Israeli company</keyword> that makes machines that generate water from air.</strong></li><li><strong>The company has now entered into a joint venture with the SMV Jaipuria Group in <keyword id="3658" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="india" source="Orion">India</keyword>.</strong></li><li><strong>The company intends to make India its marketing hub.</strong></li></ul>Water scarcity is a serious problem and is one of the biggest issues that the world is going to face in the coming years. Watergen, the Israeli company that manufactures machines that generate <keyword id="8686849" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="drinking-water-from-air" source="Orion">drinking water from air</keyword> has entered the Indian market to help fight water scarcity.<br /><br />Watergen has entered into a 50-50 joint venture (JV) with SMV Jaipuria Group, an Indian company to bring its technology to the country. The company will completely transfer the technology to the JV, allowing it to be produced in India.<br /><br />Watergen is one of the leading companies working in the atmospheric <keyword id="14028435" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="water-generator" source="Orion">water generator</keyword> segment. The company’s machines, dubbed as GENius, can generate mineralized and safe <keyword id="6355063" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="drinking-water" source="Orion">drinking water</keyword> from ambient air.<br /><cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="Here’s how it works" comment="subhead" text="Here’s how it works"><span data-til="noop">Here’s how it works</span></cmsannotation><br /><br />              <div type="Youtube" id="VG7C9HosSTk" title="Watergen - how it works?" thumbUrl="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VG7C9HosSTk/mqdefault.jpg"></div><br />The Genius system from Watergen uses a heat-exchange technology that extracts water from the air. It begins by drawing the air using a blower and then removing dust and dirt using filters.<br /><br />Then, the heat-exchange technology uses condensation to produce water from the moisture in the air. The water is stored in a buffer tank and then is purified using filters and a UV lamp.<br /><br />The water is then stored in a tank and can be directly used for drinking.<br /><cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="India will be the marketing hub for the company" comment="subhead" text="India will be the marketing hub for the company"><span data-til="noop">India will be the marketing hub for the company</span></cmsannotation><br />The company will make India the global marketing hub and the GENius system will be produced in India and exported to other countries in addition to being sold in the country.<br /><br /><div type="javascript" title="Instagram" contenttype="Video"><cdata><![CDATA[ ]]></cdata></div><br />"India will be the main marketing hub for global activities for Watergen. We will export from India to the global market. India is amongst our top three strategic markets and together with our partner, we are determined to provide safe mineralized drinking water available for every individual, across geographies and demographics," said Maayan Mulla, chief executive officer of Watergen India.<br /><br />The company is expected to launch the product in India next year and will begin with metro cities initially. The company’s Genny device, which is designed for domestic use is expected to be priced at ₹2.5 lakh.<br /><br /><strong>SEE ALSO:<br /><br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/auto/news/ambassador-maker-hindustan-motors-looking-to-make-a-comeback-with-electric-vehicles/articleshow/91789649.cms">Ambassador era relic Hindustan Motors looking to make a comeback with electric vehicles</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/andhra-pradesh-telangana-maharashtra-and-these-states-are-currently-charging-up-to-15-more-than-other-states/articleshow/91744626.cms">These states in India are paying up to ₹15 extra on petrol compared to other states</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/government-backed-attackers-are-using-predator-spyware-to-record-audio-hide-apps-and-more-heres-everything-you-need-to-know-about-it/articleshow/91782685.cms">Government-backed attackers are using Predator spyware to record audio, hide apps and more — here's everything you need to know about it</a></strong><br />

To help fight water scarcity, a machine that produces drinking water from air has been launched in India

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div></div></div></p><ul class="summary-list"><li>March 22 marks <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/world-water-day">World Water Day,</a> a United Nations campaign to raise awareness of the global water crisis.</li><li>One in four people will face a recurring water shortage by 2050, according to UN estimates.</li><li>To tackle this crisis, an Israeli company called Watergen has developed a machine that pulls clean water out of thin air. </li><li>The machine comes in various sizes, including a large version for factories and villages and a small version for offices and homes. </li></ul><p>World Water Day aims to raise awareness of the global water crisis, which could leave one in four people with a <a href="https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/sustainable-development-goals/goal-6-clean-water-and-sanitation.html">recurring water shortage</a> by 2050. As the global population <a href="http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/news/population/2015-report.html">continues to climb</a>, that means more than 2 billion people could soon be starved for world's most precious resource.</p><p>To tackle this mounting issue, one company has turned to a solution in nature.</p><p>Since 2009, the Israeli company <a href="http://www.watergen.com/">Watergen</a><span> has been developing and implementing a technology that extracts clean water from thin air. It all comes down to perfecting a basic <keyword id="41551" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="100" keywordseo="science">science</keyword>. </span></p><p><em><strong>Read more:</strong> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/african-cities-water-crisis-2019-3">African cities are running out of water, and the continent needs $66 billion to avoid a crisis of disease and dehydration</a></em></p><p><span>Our atmosphere is full of water vapor, which turns into condensation in cooler temperatures. We often see this effect in the summer, when </span><span>water droplets collect on the outside of an ice-cold glass.</span></p><p><span>Watergen's machine generators harness this same technology by pulling air from the atmosphere, condensing it into water, filtering it for impurities like metal or bacteria, and adding minerals so that it's drinkable.</span></p><p><span><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div></div></div></span></p><p><span>The process is similar to that of an air conditioner, only Watergen's machines can produce </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">5 to 6 times more water. The technology has also been <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/watergen-announces-new-automotive-division-that-will-change-the-transportation-industry-forever-300772222.html">tested and approved</a> by the EPA.</span></p><p><span>Watergen's machines come in different sizes, all with different capacities. The largest model provides up to 5,000 liters of water (the equivalent of 18,000 water bottles) per day to places like factories and villages. There's also a medium-sized version for schools, hospitals, and buildings.</span></p><p><span>The company's newest model, a home or office generator called "Genny," produces around 27 liters a day, or the equivalent of 54 water bottles. The model will soon be sold through distributors, who determine the price, but the estimated cost is</span><span> around $1,500 per unit.  </span></p><p><span>Watergen's larger machines have already been introduced to communities around the world, including some in </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">China, India, Vietnam, Mexico, and Brazil. </span></p><h2>Watergen's machines can help during a crisis</h2><p>When a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/california-camp-fire-death-toll-most-destructive-in-history-2018-11">devastating string of wildfires</a> swept California in November, the company used its generator to provide fresh water to local <span>police and firefighters on the ground. Last August, it also distributed water to Kerala, India, after the state endured <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/india/483-dead-in-kerala-floods-and-landslides-losses-more-than-annual-plan-outlay-pinarayi-vijayan-5332306/">massive floods and landslides</a> that killed nearly 500 people. </span></p><p><span><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div></div></div></span></p><p><span>But Watergen's primary purpose isn't to serve disaster zones. It's to address the global water shortage. </span></p><p><span>"</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">We think this is the solution for the world in the long-run," sai</span>d Maxim Pasik, the company's executive chairman. "<span style="font-weight: 400;">It's taking out all the plastic bottles, all the logistics of bringing water from trucks."</span></p><p>In Cape Town, South Africa, <span>government trucks distribute gallons of water to local households. Residents also <a href="https://www.citylab.com/environment/2018/07/how-cape-town-got-to-the-brink-of-water-catastrophe/564800/">line up for hours</a> to fill their plastic jugs with water from local springs, which for some necessitates a <a href="https://www.denverpost.com/2018/02/23/as-cape-towns-water-runs-out-the-rich-drill-wells-the-poor-worry-about-eating/">trek of multiple miles</a>. Many residents have taken to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/african-cities-water-crisis-2019-3">hoarding water in their homes</a>, which can create a breeding ground for disease-carrying mosquitoes.</span></p><p><span>Last year, Cape Town began counting down to "<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/cape-town-day-zero-photos-inequality-2018-2">Day Zero</a>," when it was estimated to run completely out of water. The city seems to have thwarted the crisis for now, but it still faces the looming threat of <a href="https://qz.com/africa/1525526/cape-towns-day-zero-water-shortage-fear-spreads-in-south-africa/">another drought</a>. </span></p><p><span>Many African cities are undergoing similarly dire circumstances, but <span style="font-weight: 400;">Watergen doesn't yet have the capacity to serve every community in need. As it attempts to scale its production, the company is also working to make sure residents are aware of its technology. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"We need to educate people," said Pasik. "They need to understand that this source of water is trustworthy."</span></p><h2><strong>There are still major obstacles to addressing the water shortage</strong></h2><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pasik said <span>Watergen</span> doesn't have any immediate competitors, but it's not the only company converting air into water. The <span>startup </span><a href="https://www.zeromasswater.com/contact-us/?utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_campaign=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_term=zero%20mass%20water&amp;hsa_tgt=kwd-384047351745&amp;hsa_grp=50186269833&amp;hsa_src=g&amp;hsa_net=adwords&amp;hsa_mt=e&amp;hsa_ver=3&amp;hsa_ad=258434142190&amp;hsa_acc=2226991964&amp;hsa_kw=zero%20mass%20water&amp;hsa_cam=981289406&amp;gclid=EAIaIQobChMI6s7ko8DZ3QIVjJ6zCh00sAurEAAYASAAEgLT6PD_BwE">Zero Mass Water</a> has adopted a similar <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/zero-mass-water-solar-panels-solution-water-crisis-2019-1">water-harvesting process</a> using <span>solar panels. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span>The company's panels are around the same price as "Genny" - $2,000 (plus around $500 for installation) - but they save on the cost of electricity. The main drawback is that they </span></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span>can only deliver about 2 to 5 liters of water a day. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span>In both cases, weather and climate <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/31/tech/water-from-air-startups/index.html">pose certain limitations</a>. Zero Mass Water's panels work best in sunny areas and won't function in freezing temperatures, while Watergen tends to perform best in hot, humid climates. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span>One added benefit of Watergen's machines is that they're designed to release clean air back into a home or office. But when</span></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> it comes to providing reliable fresh water to billions of people by 2050, the company has a long way to go.</span></p>

These machines pull clean drinking water out of thin air, and they might be a solution to the global water crisis

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Water-Gen</span></p></div><p></p></div></div>When kids learn about the planet's water cycle, they're taught a simple concept: our atmosphere is filled with water vapor that has evaporated from the bodies of liquid water we see around us. When the vapor's temperature gets low enough, it gets turned back into water.</p><p>The presence of that vapor becomes especially apparent in the summer, when droplets collect on glasses of ice water and air conditioning units drip onto unsuspecting passersby.</p><p>An Israeli company called <a href="http://www.water-gen.com/" target="_blank">Water-Gen</a> does not think of that condensation as a byproduct; instead, it has built machines specifically designed to create and harvest as much condensation as possible. Using a system that uses a set of plastic "leaves" to funnel air in various directions, the team has developed water generators that appear to create pure drinking water out of nothing.</p><p>"The target is to extract water from the air with minimum energy," founder and co-CEO Arye Kohavi tells Business Insider. "We think our solution can solve the problem on the level of countries. It's an immediate solution - governments don't need to spend decades to make a big project."</p><p>Water-Gen is one of seven Israeli companies presenting technological innovations at the United Nations General Assembly this week.</p><p>The company currently makes three sizes of water generating machines, each of which must be plugged into a power source. At 80 degrees and 60% humidity, the biggest can yield about 825 gallons per day, but Kohavi says the technology is easily scalable. The company's medium sized unit produces 118 gallons per day under the same conditions, and the smallest - which is intended for use in a home or office - produces just under 4 gallons per day.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Water-Gen</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Water-Gen estimates that at current energy prices, the water generated will cost less than ten cents a gallon.</p><p>The Water-Gen team is looking to bring the technology to two types of places: areas that don't have drinkable tap water, and locations that are warm and humid.</p><p>"If it's hotter or more humid, the system produces more than average, and if it's colder and dryer it produces less," Kohavi explains, adding that as long as temperatures are high enough, there is enough water in the air for the machines to work regardless of humidity levels.</p><p>Luckily, those two sets of conditions often overlap. "Places that do not have drinking water in pipes are usually hot and humid - Latin America, Southeast Asia, Africa - so those two rules are almost equal," Kohavi says</p><p>Water-Gen is currently doing field tests of its products in cities like Mumbai, Shanghai and Mexico City, as well as more rural locations. The company's products are expected to be commercially available by the end of next year.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Water-Gen</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Maxim Nasik, the chairman of Water-Gen, says that because climate change and the growing world population are making the issue of accessible drinking water increasingly important, the company hopes to bring its technology directly to governments. Implementing it on a large scale would be cheaper and faster, he says, adding that the company is already in discussion with several governments.</p><p>That kind of negotiation is not new for Water-Gen - the company started in Israel by creating military equipment to help get water to soldiers on the front lines. It has since sold that technology to several other armies, including those in the US, UK and France, as well as undisclosed Arab countries.</p><p>In addition to the water generation machines, the company also makes a water purifier that can be powered via batteries or solar panels, and is capable of filtering out everything from water-born parasites like Giardia to poison like cyanide, though it can't desalinize salt water.</p><p>"Water from air is for places that you don't have any water to filter," Kohavi says.</p><p>A few years ago, Water-Gen decided to turn its attention to civilian applications of its technology. 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This device can literally pull clean drinking water out of thin air

<keyword id="6358210" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Dangal">Dangal</keyword> And Baahubali-2 continue to create history at the box office, globally and have disrupted the scale at which success is measured, changing the definition of a mega blockbuster by multi-fold, from Rs 200 crore to 2000 crore. Here are some interesting business and strategy lessons that <keyword id="2784442" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Co-working-spaces">co-Working spaces</keyword>, which themselves are becoming the choice of the new generation of smart workforce, can learn from these two superhits.<br /><br /><br />1. Focus on making High Quality Core Product <u></u><br /><br />Nothing Beats Quality, Still.<br /><br />One unique thing which was quite evident in both the blockbusters was the superlative script, high octane performances by the cast, top notch direction and overall a very well-crafted film that leaves you feeling inspired as well gives you full bang for your buck. While last two years saw crass comedies and run of the mill films also crossing 100 cr, both these films teach us that it's very important to get the core product which is script, acting and direction right for the end result to be of high impact.<br /><br />Similarly, co-working spaces, while requiring all the bells and whistles like new age fancy architecture and gadgetry, also need to get the core right i.e comfortable ergonomic seating, high speed internet, availability <br /><br />of conference rooms, F&amp;B, thinking space and most importantly, a curated ,well designed community and activities. The brands need to bring the best of the breed mentors, collaborations, partners and services to make the experience of co-working a delight. The workplace should be such that people look forward to coming to office to work and stay motivated to make the dent in the universe that they aspire to.<br /><br />2. Right Strategic Collaborations<b><u></u></b><br /><br />After all Co in Co-Working is Collaboration<br /><br /><keyword id="6354370" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="baahubali">Baahubali</keyword> witnessed coming together of two heavyweights of Indian Motion Picture Industry, S S Rajamouli and Karan Johar, leaders in Telugu and Hindi Film Industry. By getting Karan Johar to present the movie in part 2, movie franchise deal, S S Rajamouli pulled off a major scoop by covering all the major movie markets of India between two of them like Hindi, Telugu, Tamil , &amp; Malayalam making it the biggest Pan India hit till date .<br /><br /> Co-working spaces are an essential bridge between need and fulfillment .On one side you have a high energy, disruptive linkster and millennial workforce with demand of technology, capital, guidance and customers and on the other side, the right collaborations. An apt or prefect collaboration has to be in place to provide the necessary services, mentorship, partnerships and access to global collaborative networks to make it happen for the tenants.<br /><br />3. Multiple Revenue Streams<u></u><br /><br />Warren Buffett, famously, said “never rely on a single source of income"<br /><br />Baahubali 2 have shattered all Box Office records for Indian Film Industry and look set to surpass 2000 Cr by the time you read this. Not to mention, the satellite rights for both movies smashed all records by going for a huge 75 Cr. The revenue from Music, Merchandise, Mobile games, and for a first, a spin-off Animated series on Amazon Prime, Baahubali : The Lost Legend , shows how new revenue streams can keep the cash register ringing for long. <br /><br />This shows importance of exploring new revenue streams for co-working spaces. Some of the trends that have already caught up with Co-working space offering is more than a seat and include things like legal, financial, professional services, software development to digital services to having branded in-house cafes, events and more.<u></u><br /><br />4. Go Global Baby<u><b></b></u><br /><br />The World is truly Flat, Make Local, and Sell Global.<br /><br />Dangal Released in India and was a smash hit and could have been content with Rs 500 cr. it made in India and Rs 250 cr in Europe and Americas. But being Mr. Perfectionist , Aamir khan decided to play the Chinese checkers and as on date out of the whopping 2000 Cr gross Dangal has managed to collect around Rs 1200 cr from China only, Yes China, you read it right, a big market for Hollywood films but hitherto never exploited to its full potential by Bollywood movies .Meanwhile Baahubali 2 is also smashing domestic and overseas records with a total of around 1800 cr till date &amp; considering China’s new found fondness for Bollywood, it can easily cross Rs 2500 cr or maybe even Rs 3000 cr .<br /><br />This shows how global collaborations can truly change the game for Indian service providers and can scale new heights by such partnerships. Few example recent collaborations like Vikarm Solar tie up Israel’s Water-Gen and Creator’s Gurukul, collaborated with Global Leaders like F6S and Startup Grind from Europe and <keyword id="6357722" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="silicon-valley">Silicon Valley</keyword> respectively to curate a truly global experience. <br /><br />5. Community Building<u></u><br /><br />Love Thy Neighbor<br /><br />These two mega hits built a clan of Fan-boys and Fan-girls giving the movies a cult status of a kind unheard in Bollywood till date. While it was rooting for women power “Mhari Choriya Chorro se kum hain ke” from Dangal to curiosity around the question that the entire Nation wanted to know” Kattapa Ne Baabhubali Ko Kyu Maara?”, whereby the marketing team hacked virality and social media, so well, that it created an entire legion of Baahubali aficionados leading to unprecedented frenzy around these movies. The shared values among the fans created a sense of togetherness and debuted a new kind of community around Bollywood films.<br /><br />Similarly, what differentiates a co-working space, at the most from a typical office, is that people with different strong suited, capabilities and know how help each other in the areas of weakness to achieve the respective goals.<br /><br />While people working out of a co-working might be from different companies, they help each other to achieve success because there is a feeling of “belongingness”, a community bond which means success for one is success for all. Globally, people take pride in calling them “We-Workers” nearly as much as a “Googler” or so ... <br /><br /> We can soon expect co-working spaces to have the portraits of Mahendra Baahubali and Mahavir Singh Phogat to inspire the workforce and have #LikeABaahubali replace #LikeABoss .<br /><br /><br /> (The article is authored by Abhinav Tandon and Mohammed Sirajuddin, Co-Founders, Creator’s Gurukul)<u></u><br /><br /><br />

5 key learnings co-working spaces can take from movies like Dangal, Baahubali

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Zero Mass</span></p></div><p></p></div></div>Our atmosphere contains approximately <a href="http://water.usgs.gov/edu/qa-home-percapita.html" target="_blank">3,100 cubic miles of water</a> - enough to cover the entire planet in one inch of water.</p><p>That water surrounds us in the form of vapor - water's gaseous, evaporated state. We're usually only reminded of this on especially humid days, but our air can actually be considered a water source.</p><p><a href="http://www.zeromasswater.com/" target="_blank">Zero Mass</a>, a sustainable water startup, is trying to create an easy, off-grid way for anyone to harvest that liquid with its first product, Source.</p><p>Each Source unit looks like a solar panel resting on top of a metal box. Company CEO Cody Friesen, a material scientist and engineering professor at Arizona State University, says the device essentially <span>uses sunlight to produce electricity and heat, and which allows a set of proprietary materials to passively catch the humidity in the air.</span></p><p>Friesen won't say how those materials are engineered or what they're made of, but explains that they're designed to have an ideal binding energy for water vapor.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Zero Mass</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>He compares the process to the grains of rice you'll sometimes find inside salt shakers in humid locations. That rice, he says, is placed there because it binds more strongly to water than the salt does, so the moisture will stick to the rice, and won't make the salt wet and clumpy.</p><p>"You want to make sure that these materials that are going to passively absorb water from the air hold onto that water strongly enough that they'll do so under dry conditions, but not so strongly that under any condition it takes a lot of energy to get that water back off," he says.</p><p>Friesen says that on average, one Source device can harvest 5 liters of water per day. Because of the device depends on solar power, he says, that number doesn't vary too drastically between dry and wet climates - solar radiation is stronger in dry places where there are fewer water molecules in the air to absorb it, and water vapor is more prevalent in wet places where solar radiation is less intense.</p><p>Once the water vapor is harvested and turned into liquid, the device adds minerals to bring the water's pH levels up, which makes it taste more like the water sold in bottles. It then gets stored in a metal compartment underneath the solar panel that can hold 30 liters. The reservoir gets connected to a pipe, and sends the water from the device to a faucet.</p><p><span>"W</span><span>hen you're making solar energy, you have to use it or lose it unless you have a battery," Friesen says. "In our case, we're storing solar energy in a glass."</span></p><p>Zero Mass boasts that one Source is able to produce enough clean drinking water each day to satisfy a family of four; however if all four members followed the 8-glasses-per-day rule, that family would wind up about 3 liters short. The panels can be connected, however, to combine their outputs. When that happens, Zero Mass programs one to act as the hub, and when that hub uses up the water in its reservoir, it can communicate with the other panels, which act as spokes and sent their water over.</p><p>The Source isn't available for retail sale yet - Friesen says he expects sales to start in early 2017 - so the company hasn't released a cost estimate for individual units. But Zero Mass suggests one device will pay itself off in bottled water savings over two to four years. In other words, each one would be equal to what you'd pay for somewhere between 964 and 1,928 gallons of bottled water at a store like Costco or Walmart. (By our math that would price it somewhere between $1,000 and $4,000 dollars.)</p><p>Several countries and organizations have already started putting the devices to use. In August 2015, Jordan's King Abdullah II installed Zero Mass panels in locations throughout the country. Duke Energy has installed panels in schools, homes, and a clinic in Ecuador, and the Zero Mass earned a USAID grant to deploy panels to refugee camps in Jordan and Lebanon.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Zero Mass</span></p><p class="caption">A Zero Mass Source in Ecuador</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Zero Mass' products seem especially promising for emergency situations, since they are 100% sustainable and don't require and electrical inputs. Though other companies are also devising ways to extract water vapor from the air - Israeli company <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/water-gen-water-out-of-air-2016-9">WaterGen has a similar technology </a>- many require electricity to run.</p><p>Zero Mass estimates that because they don't need to be hooked up to a home's electrical system or to a power grid, the panels only take about 20 minutes to install. That allows the product to easily brought to places where populations don't have access to clean drinking water, like rural communities in the developing world or make-shift refugee camps. Source units could also be deployed to help Californians weather the state's drought, or to provide residents of places with polluted water, like Flint, Michigan, with an alternative source.</p><p>"One of the fundamental tenants [of the business] is that drinking water is a human right and everybody should have access to it and control over it and security over it the same way we have those things around air," Friesen says. "It shouldn't be something that you have to secure through a government source, through infrastructure, or by purchasing water at the store."</p><p>The Source, of course, is not designed to provide enough water for an entire family's total daily usage (the average American uses about 100 gallons per day). Rather, it ensures that a moderate supply drinking water is always clean and available - something that's currently <a href="http://water.org/water-crisis/water-sanitation-facts/" target="_blank">not the case</a> for 10% of the world's population.</p><p>"We are taking an inexhaustible source of water - vapor - and we're making it free to make it liquid," Friesen says, adding, "From a technology perspective, of course, we are moving as fast as we can, because this is no joke."</p>     <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/animated-map-bottled-water-springs-dasani-aquafina-2016-10">Animated map shows where your bottled water actually comes from</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="JzdmR1NjE6PyYq7of1kM38y5ovwgxXYM" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div>

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