People around the world, in developing and developed countries alike, consume unsafe and unhealthy drinking water, and the problem is expected to increase dramatically in the coming years due to climate change, urbanization and population growth.
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent a conceptual path to solving these global challenges, and access to clean water is at the heart of many of them.
In line with these objectives, the Israeli startup H2OLL has launched its first complete system to produce high-quality, low-cost water from air. This technology emerged as a project of Eran Friedler and David Broday, professors of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Israel Institute of Technology (Technion), in Haifa.
This innovative system, which allows the extraction of water from the air even in dry and desert areas, completely blocking chemical and biological pollutants, has already been installed by H2OLL in Wadi Attir, an initiative of the Bedouin community in the Negev, which seeks to create a model of sustainable agriculture in the desert.
The system can produce 1.000 litres of water per day, which represents a major step forward in water resource management in arid regions.