In Canada, they came up with a device that produces drinking water from the air

The Canadian company invented a device to extract moisture from the air and turn it into clean drinking water, reports inopressa.ru with reference to The Guardian . The invention called Watermill works on electricity and uses about the same amount of energy as three electric bulbs.

The device was demonstrated this weekend on Manhattan at the annual exhibition of Wired magazine, where the latest technical inventions are exhibited, which, according to the editorial office, could change the world.

Outside, the device looks like a giant golf ball (about a meter in diameter), split in half. It is made of white plastic and attaches to the wall.

The device pulls air through the filters, separating it from dust and litter, and then heats it to the temperature at which moisture forms. The resulting water passes through a sterilizing reservoir, which, using ultraviolet radiation, fights with the pathogens of the disease of legionnaires and other infections. Finally, the water is cleaned and falls into the refrigerator through the pipes or into the kitchen crane.

For consumers who care about environmental protection, WaterMill is a good way out of the situation. Water in bottles is an ecological disaster, notes Ed Pilkington. In the United States alone, about 30 billion liters of water in bottles worth $ 11 billion are consumed annually. At the same time, according to the Institute of Earth’s Policy, about 1.5 million barrels of oil - this is enough to provide a combustible with 100 thousand cars a year - is used for the manufacture of plastic.

Although the atmosphere contains eight times more water than in all rivers of the world combined, moisture is distributed unevenly. Such areas of the United States, such as, for example, dry south-west, are most lacking moisture.

The device does not work with a decrease in the level of relative humidity below 30%, which often occurs during the day in Arizona. The machine is equipped with a built -in computer, which increases performance at dawn, when the humidity level is above all, and reduces from the middle of the day when the sun heats the air.