We found another design solution for dew collection: WATERBOXX. Groasis waterboxx was elected Popular Science’s 2010 Best Innovation of the Year. Waterboxx was invented by Pieter Hoff. His ideas was to help trees grow in dry environments and replant the desert. The idea is to catch rain water and dew and store it inside...
Read more »
Here’s why D.R.I.P.S. can make a difference: time spent fetching and carrying water on their heads can be spent on education, family, community, work, or simply relaxing. Like water, time is a precious resource that shouldn’t be wasted! Wouldn’t it be great if they could use their heads for something else?
Read more »
The more research we do, the more we post on this site, the more obvious is becomes that different areas of the world, different peoples are need the flexibility in the approach to developing dew collection systems for plan irrigation. Some places have a lot of fog and would benefit from using nets-based D.R.I.P.S....
Read more »
Here’s an expensive piece of technology that India’s army is using for its water need. This is a CNN report:
Read more »
Even highly developed nations have water scarcity issues. Here’s a news story from Australia, which is suffering sever water shortages:
Read more »
This is an example of a high-tech solution for condensing water out of air. This requires electricity and is not cheap. But it gave these people clean, drinking water.
Read more »
This video shows to construct a dew catcher (really more like a fog catcher) from an aluminum frame and netting.
Read more »
This video shows how to contract a dew harvester.
Read more »
This is a very old science educational video (my mom worked on it). See if you recognize the little boy in the video… Oh, and it shows how to make fresh water from seawater through evaporation and dew formation (start at about 9 minutes into the video):
Read more »
Here’s a nice animation showing the water cycle: Follow the red dot to track the water as evaporates, forms into clouds, condensates, rains down, gets absorbed into ground water, seeps into rivers and lakes, flows down into the ocean, and evaporates again to complete the cycle.
Read more »
Here’s an illustration of how D.R.I.P.S. would be used to farm potatoes, using evapotranspiration—by collecting dew and delivering it to the plants’ root system. This is our low energy passive irrigation system in scarce water environment.
Read more »
We are working on our movie for the D.R.I.P.S. presentation in Paris this summer. To really explain how our invention would work, we need to give a few definitions and provide some physics background. So this post is a collection of useful concepts and definitions about water in the air. The Hydrologic Cycle This...
Read more »
Some things that collect water from the air are quite large, such as fog harvesters. Some are very expensive: air water condenser turbine. Some are very small: the desert beetle dew harvester. And some are inexpensive: Tal-Ya irrigators (only $1.00 each). We thought it would be appropriate to show you where we think D.R.I.P.S....
Read more »
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....
Read more »
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...
Read more »
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...
Read more »
We just got our first glimpse of DRIPS from India — these were produced in India and are being shipped to us now. Can’t...
Read more »
This year (2011), we are still focusing on food. We want to know the true cost of food — its price; the distance it...
Read more »
