We take water for granted, but water shortages may be more of a problem in the future than oil “shortages”.
Big companies are buying up water purification, desalinization, and other water production plants at top speed hoping to cash in on shortages that will make $3 per gallon for gasoline look cheap by comparison.
(Remember during the South Central L.A. Riots store owners were charged with “profiteering” for selling water for $4 per gallon which is available today for under a $1 at Wal Mart.)
Wired Magazine reports that Aqua Sciences has produced a machine that will generate up to 600 gallons of distilled water daily from atmospheric moisture in areas like deserts where the humidity is as low as 14%.
The technology is proprietary. The creators compare it to the Dead Sea…
“We figured out how to tap it in a very unique and proprietary way,” Sher said. “We figured out how to mimic nature, using natural salt to extract water and act as a natural decontamination.
“Think of the Dead Sea, where nothing grows around it because the salt dehydrates everything. It’s kind of like that.”
Unlike bottled water it has no shelf life problems and can be produced on location instead of being transported in.
The cost to transport water by C-17 cargo planes, then truck it to the troops, runs $30 a gallon. The cost, including the machines from Aqua Sciences, will be reduced to 30 cents a gallon, Roy said.
Every locale should have access to this in the event that normal water distribution is disrupted for some reason.
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