We are doing a lot of research to gather the necessary materials and to find information that supports our Deep Root Irrigation Precipitation System. The posts in this section show what we have done so far.
This video shows off the fog collection technology that was used in Eritrea and Nepal.
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Who knew? There’s actually a conference that’s dedicated to dew collection! Check it out: http://fogconference2013.org/ Here’s their announcement: “The 6th International Conference on Fog, Fog Collection and Dew will be held in Yokohama, Japan, 19-24 May, 2013. The goal of this conference is to bring together people who are interested in any aspect of...
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We are doing a lot of research in these last few days. We came across a dew irrigation system that had a lot of similarity to our D.R.I.P.S. project. It is a system designed by an Israeli company Tal-Ya. Here are few photos of their product (notice the irrigation lines): At first it was...
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We came across the use of clay pots for irrigation while doing research on water conservation done by farmers in rural communities. So here’s a description of VERY old technology. A large clay unglazed pot is buried in the ground next to a plant. Clay is very porous, so when this pot is filled...
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While in eighth grade, I did a video on lotus leaves and superhydrophobic surfaces. D.R.I.P.S. would benefit from having such a surface on the cone part of the dew collecting structure. Check out this video from California Institute of Technology (one of the schools I’m thinking of attending in a few years). The video...
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We just came across this non-profit organization while we were doing a bit of additional research on dew collection and dew “harvesting.” Here’s a link: http://www.opur.fr/index.htm
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Here’s an interesting video on how dew collection is supplementing drinking water in a rural Indian village.
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Published in the International Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering 1:2 2009, this experiment titled Dew and Rain Water Collection in South Croatia, researched and designed by Daniel Beysens, Imad Lekouch, Marina Mileta, Iryna Milimouk and Marc Muselli, demonstrates the potential of dew collection as a significant supplementary source of water in arid environments....
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In the Namib Desert there is a beetle that utilizes a similar method to the D.R.I.P.S. in order to stay hydrated. The beetle lives in an area that receives only a half inch of rain per year, but it can collect the moisture out of the wind that blows across the land. The insect...
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In September 2005 issue of Scientific American Journal, there was an article: “The Big Potential of Small Farms” by Paul Polak (August 22, 2005). Paul Polak started IDE—International Development Enterprises—in 1981 to come up with good solutions to water problems. The article describes IDE’s work and the problems they are trying to solve. There’s...
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Here is a collection of maps from How Stuff Works on Precipitation, Land Use, Climate, Vegetation, and People Density. Annual Precipitation Map of the World Climate Map of the World Land Use Map of the World Population Density Map of the World Vegetation Map of the World
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This is map of total rainfall around the world. Source: NOAA.
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We’ve got an invitation to The Energy Lab — EDF’s new pavilion in France, featuring the winning designs from the EDF Sustainable Design Challenge....
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Our project and its video was just posted on The Water Channel! Here’s a description of what they do: TheWaterChannel was launched at the...
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So now we have three prototypes: two from India and one locally-produced. They are very different. But the latest version is what we are...
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We just got our first glimpse of DRIPS from India — these were produced in India and are being shipped to us now. Can’t...
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This year (2011), we are still focusing on food. We want to know the true cost of food — its price; the distance it...
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