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In this exclusive movie, Italian architect Arturo Vittori explains how his wooden Warka Water structures can provide clean drinking water for rural communities in the developing world.
The tower consists of a bamboo frame supporting a mesh polyester material inside. Rain, fog and dew condenses against the mesh and trickles down a funnel into a reservoir at the base of the structure. A fabric canopy shades the lower sections of the tower to prevent the collected water from evaporating.
"Warka Water is currently represented by a tower that reaches up to the sky to collect moisture from the air and brings it down by gravity to the people," Vittori says.
The performance of the towers varies depending on the weather, but Vittori's aim is to create a structure that would enable the community to extract up to 100 litres of water a day without the reservoir running dry.
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this is the most amazing invention i have seen in this 21 century. i love to hear that humans can make a technology that does not depend on machines to work
microplastics membrane for people, living in nature lol, gtfo st#pid n#zi
what about... Well?
@@neexgamessome places have water tables that are too deep
I've seen so much misinformed arguing in the comments that I feel like I have to set things straight here. These towers do work... depending on your location. All that's going on here is that these towers are just large dew traps. Air can hold some water, we call this the humidity. The amount of water it can hold depends on its temperature, warmer air can hold more moisture. The temperature at which the air has to be for its current humidity to be at its maximum (also called the saturation point) is called the dewpoint. If the temperature of the air reaches this point (as it usually does at night in many parts of the world) then that excess humidity condensates onto any physical object (like grass for example). The more surface area you have for condensation to occur on, the more water you'll get forming on it, and if this surface points downwards then the water can fall into a collection tank at the bottom. There, that's literally it. No need for a debunking video.
This guy gets it. it's a basic survival technique that's been known to humanity for longer then we've had running water.
but why is it tall? It seems like they are trying to say "we used the magic of CAD", but it looks like they just used CAD to make it tall.
@@9072997 " The more surface area you have for condensation to occur on" ...
@@singularitysquaredllc.895 Sure, but why not put all the surface area (which I presume is mostly a mesh fabric or something like that) close to the ground where you could support it with fence posts (or bamboo used as fence posts)? It would have a larger footprint, but you wouldn't need guy-wires or cleverly built structures. Is there more moisture to be collected higher up? Is this leveraging the height to do something useful with water pressure?
@@9072997 it's leveraging gravity, and flow.
Hey! not some corny gizmo you have to overpay for, just something that actually helps people!!
that's genuinely awesome
This is such an extraordinary invention for the people in need and for the environment too. Just amazing how simple materials can do such a thing. Great job.
So, does it work on dry days or only humid days?
@D. Boumghar u are too stupid to even comprehend my friend
@@dr.zoidberg5096 Clearly reliant on atmospheric humidity. I question whether it can produce 20 gallons each day too.
Words fail me. As a graphic designer I am always banging on about great design must be functional in order to be truly great... this my friend is beyond functional and will hopefully change the landscape of this planet forever! I salute you and your humility to give it back to the people to use as they see fit! A once in a lifetime invention that goes beyond anything I have ever witnessed! Bravo!!! x
except it didn't *lol*
a big microplastic membrane n#zi di€k
You should get a NOBEL PRIZE for this. Designers nowadays always looking at advanced, expensive, hard-to-maintained and complicated technologies for solution like this. I salute you.
Did you not hear him say he stole the idea from africa?
Really really good people are not really interested on a Nobel. They are the smartest... And they just do it for the others.. Just to help... Those are real genius. 🙌
@@DTIVO16 No, he said he got the idea because Ethiopian women must walk far to collect water.
*lol* these comments are killin' me :-)))
Its just like the moisture farms on Tatooine!
Now you just need Toshi's station to check out some power converters.
You mean Arrakis. But then everything in star wars is based on Dune
Or windtrap in Dune
But these one's don't need a protocol droid to talk to them.
@@spongerobertosquarepantalo322 'is based on Dune' You do realize things like this existed long before Dune, right? Herbert just stole it from somewhere else. Go read some ERB and figure out how much Herbert copied his work..
The real question is why did this got recommended to all of us 4 years later?
They are priming you for what our future is going to be in a few years when the commi marxist globalist left takes over the world.
@@illbeyourmonster3591 Marx wasn't a communist. Communism isn't globalist. The left isn't communist. The left isn't Soviet. Communism isn't what hurt the Soviets. And I'll just toss this one in there since you probably believe it too: liberalism isn't the left.
What we really need is priming for when the capi smithist imperialist right takes over the world and turns it into a complete shithole. Oh wait, they already did! And it is a complete shithole! Imagine living in that shithole of a world and thinking that the worst thing we could have is change. Humanitarian change, no less.
Time is catching up to the future is now tomorrow 4 Infinity
Because we're about to need it lol
The algorithm has deigned to supply you with the knowledge to source potable water after the power grid is disabled. We are privileged.
What an amazing project! What a cool way to help people get the water they need!
Need a lot of them to raise a lot of crops. Not going to be growing rice in the desert.
@@cliffordnelson8454 I’m glad there is a least a way to get some clean drinking water.
heres a big N#ZI DI€K microplastic membrane for healthy people with fresh water available living in ropical greenery...while that german talking latin lives in an ugly cold frozen industrial toxic wasteland
Look at the background. Nice green well water grass and deciduous trees. This area doesn't have a moisture problem. Try this in an area with a humidity of 25% or less. Like where something like this would actually be needed.
You dont have to live in a desert to have a water problem. If they cant drill wells and have no nearby rivers or lakes its STILL a problem. You can still die of dehydration in a rainforest. waters no good if you cant access it
"Moisture farmin' all my life and not a drop spilt…"
Well we all got a chicken duck lady thing waiting for us.
So sick of blue milk
"My aunt and uncle, double suns, I'm sick of blue milk"
I think my cooking's awesome
But then a desert hobo came and told me! 😂😅
That is a tremendous amount of water production per day. I wonder how it performs across a range of locations with varying temperatures and humidity.
It doesn't
@@Mishn0 I agree. I live in Colorado, and I can assure you that things left outside dry out. They do not ever collect condensation. Rain harvesting and filtering could be an option, but not collecting condensation.
This works with the morning difference in humidity. Overnight there is moisture in the air, these things collect condensation that happens in the morning.
Polydynamix its performance varies according to location, temperatures and humidity
@@daos3300 I figured, the question is how much? What if it were, let's say... 400 feet tall? What if instead of a collection vessel it was a pipe- and what if they had it on top of a mountain?
I'm in Missouri and use Peruvian style fog catchers in the garden. Just some poles with nylon netting stretched between them. The water catches on the nylon in the morning and drops towards the garden. We have a higher humidity so it works when it's supposed to. That is a great idea for capturing potable water for people to drink and cook with. Air2Water generation is going to be a big part of our lives all over the world.
Its important to note that this wouldn't be used anywhere water is scarce since it requires that the area it is in already has a lot of water in the air. Could be useful though in communities where the water has been polluted.
It's important to note that you're completely wrong. While a lower rainfall/arid region would not get as much use out of this vs a humid/tropical region there is definitely a use to it because while they don't get rain as much due to adverse conditions, they do still get moisture in the air that could be harvested via these means.
@@beowulf1417 It won't do crap in low humidity areas that never reach dewpoint. People have been using this technology for hundreds of years in the places that it works. The advantage is that it collects water for you in a humid area so that you can have fresh water even if it doesn't rain, or if you're not near a stream. It's particularly useful on tropical islands that may have no other source of fresh water.
If it's not humid, you need a refrigerant to lower the humidity in the device (or a dessicant to collect it that you can then apply heat to to release the water). This uses a LOT of energy, which is why water condensers for dry areas are a dumb idea because it would be cheaper to just build a pipeline to carry water from somewhere that it's easier to get.
@@beowulf1417 ya like nothing. You going to keep a whole community alive with a bucket of water a week. Also I'm not wrong you can't collect water from the air if there is no water in the air dude! This is basic stuff
Shout out to RUclips for recommending this 4 years later
That's quick for them.
Conflicts of interest. People getting free water is not good to the pocketbook of folks who want to sell water.
No surprise because this is a life saving project
Free Energy & Free Water
*There's A Sucker Born Every Minute*
are you a thunderfoot viewer? Harvesting does not mean its free, its just passive
@@zGunTroll I'm speaking in generalities about certain people's mindset, "Free" was not meant literally. I'm somewhat familiar with thunderfoot, I watched 2-3 videos a few years ago......I remember one of them dealt with water, can't remember the specifics but he was discussing the inefficiency of a unit that was part above ground and part under ground I believe.
Pre-warp civilization atmospheric condensers.
@Beelz Yeah buddy!!!!!!
YEP! just as much phony baloney now as it was with all the other sci-fi crap from that stoopid dumb-ass show.
Let me splain something
This is a SCAM
There is only so much moister in the air
It takes a certain amount of energy to change the state of gaseous water to liquid water.
For this thing to work you will have to cool it artificially and that will take more power and cost more money then simply hauling a bladder of water on a flatbed truck.
And this is not the first scam of its kind.
MANY other such scams come along and have been debunked.
NEVER has any "working" model of them been produced.
Sometimes you see a "demo" structure, but you will never be allowed to examine and monitor its operation.
Only claims of function are made.
There will be no results.
These things will not produce any more liquid water than the dew on the grass and that has never been able to meet the demands of a civilization or even a small community.
THis is a scam!
@@scotte2815 Oh I agree with you. There is no way in hell this thing will work unless you have temperature changes from high to low to produce condensation/dew, but ya crossed a line when ya called Star Trek stoopid! Thems fightn werds!!
@@thorhuns3752 yeah I have to be careful there. I used to be a trekee (trekie?) but I grew the hell up. LOL
I still enjoy TOS
Picard just rubs me the wrong way
Data was cool
DS9 just sucked
Voyager had the whiniest crew one could imagine (and janeway rubbed me wrong)
I sort of almost liked Enterprise but it sort of fizzed out.
@@scotte2815 :D
Fantastic technology and so important that it be in the hands of the community to build and maintain.
This is totally amazing and one of the best things on water procurement I’ve seen
It's a great invention and very useful for the mountainous villagers which access for the water are very rare.
This is very cool, I have a similar design using concrete I plan to test out on my land in the desert, the main difference is mine is a dome so it can also collect rainwater.
Did you get to test it?
BRILLIANT!
Absolutely great! Well done. And of course everybody 'knew' about it.
And 'of course' nobody is interested.
And 'of course' everything stays the same.
Amazing design! Expandable, affordable, and effective
You're doing God's work mate. A huge respect to you and your hard work into making lives of these people easy
Thank you, penis
This is quite the gift to humanity. There has been over a million people displaced due to draught back in my country of Somaliland. This would be a game changer especially to the pastoral communities.
Excellent use of architectural skills. I'm really impressed. Honestly, great stuff.
How its can survival in the big wind or a storm?
I think they do not make it in windy areas... It is not a windmill, you see.
You take it down
Wind going anyway even my toilet... actually i didn’t think they just do like a toy. Maybe already do something special for strong... yeah maybe, if not... its unbelievable... but design so beautiful.
I think, this is a real progress of a kind of technology that respect human and nature!Thank's for that great invention!
Did you not hear him say he stole the idea from africa.
@@DTIVO16 lol
Laguna
So where are the videos showing these things actually working?
Lots of hot air, no cold water!!!
@@DTIVO16 but africa is still without water. So does it work?
Brilliant!! Thank you for the gift you are being for humanity!!
Hope they don’t get problems with fungi, cleaning and germs.
not to worry this thing wont work in dry areas where this is needed -.- The footage shown is in the dampest possible conditions (inside a cloud) misty morning.
They collect water out of streams i think they will be fine
@@Rem_NL the video explains what the device is for within the first min. you can live in a jungle and not have access to water. It shows a damp misty morning because thats how it works, it would not work in a desert
Thats not how fungus works.
Fungi/Mold grows and feeds on organic substances such as wood or cotton. Fungi/Mold should not grow on surfaces like plastic, metal or glass unless there is a layer of grease or some other organic substance which it can feed on. The only organic thing there is the bamboo and the clay basin can be washed. I'm sure they usually boil water before they drink it.
@@zGunTroll they did describe it, and it has nothing to do with streams lol. It's supposed to remove water from the air. And no it won't work it's a scam.
What is the humidity required for this to work? 100litres from what size (base width and height)?
They made this in a very moist area. Anywhwere else it would be innefective.
@@teos4664 it works veey well in places like asian forests
@@teos4664 Shit come to the southern states.
It has to be 100%. This device works by collecting condensation and does not cause condensation on it's own. It's no different than how trees collect dew in the morning.
would be much more effective to just catch rain water and store it.
Strong winds: What's being done to protect the structure from blowing away, or being torn apart from strong winds?
you are actually an idiot nathan it's tied down
Went to another video on the topic which explained some factors needed for this type of water extraction, one factor being that it isn't a windy environment. I'm sure there must be ways to increase wind resilience. I want to know more of exactly how it works. This technology is fascinating!
And, as a reply to the other comments. I'm sorry that I came across as a know it all. This was not my intention at all. I want to know more, and I have questions. This technology is wonderful. As a reply to the tent stake comment, I'm thinking more about "high winds" tent stakes I don't think would work here. To the other two, what are your thoughts about wind? Or do you know where I can go to learn more about this project?
@@nathanackerson1 www.warkawater.org/warkatower/
Your reply gives me hope for civil discorse. The tower is very permeable and bamboo is very elastic so most winds should not damage it.
Form their site "The tower is also designed to be easily built with simple tools and maintained by local villagers without the need of scaffolding or electrical tools."
@@zGunTroll, I have 2 specific communities in mind that I am considering while learning more about this type of water collecting. On Friday I meet with a local sustainability and environmentalist mentor, to see how I can further get my foot in the door of sustainable development.
Brilliant man, 115 dislikes from the bottled water industry!
They’re claiming 100 L a day that’s approximately 1 L every 15 minutes or half a litre in seven minutes, I would imagine that this is only possible in a high humidity environment for example when it’s raining or very foggy but the laws of thermodynamics make this very unlikely to work other than in very specific environmental circumstances
All Nestlé employees.
@@karenwhite5807 It's not a solution for every water problem in the world. It's a solution for places where fresh water is available in the air but flowing water sources are few and far between. Millions of people live in an environment like this and deserve technology that can help them even if the same technology doesn't work in the Sahara.
Wow. You made this post five hours ago and there are now 125 dislikes. 'Crabs in the bucket'. At the time of my reply there are 6,493 likes. Arturo Vittori is brilliant.
@@JohnPorsbjerg to put this more into perspective, 1L (ie, 1000mL) every 15 minutes is 66.7 mL per minute or 1.1 mL EVERY SECOND! Even a dripping faucet doesn't produce that much! and all this from condensation into this magic mesh that is at the same temperature as the air it is supposed to be condensing. Even the waterseer scammers realized that you need some kind of temperature gradient between the air and the collector and tried to address it.
This deserves gratitude AND praise!
God bless people like him.... Electricity and water out of thin air literally
Except not.
They have been doing this since ancient times in the south America and the Namib desert.
Not as effective tho
Namib desert?
Are you talking about the bugs and lizards that stand bum in the air to catch the mist?
@Pouty MacPotatohead
Nope, the condensate runs down the back ridges and gets licked up by the lizards when it reaches the head.
These lizards don't get bigger than your pinky.
Yes very few people go there so very few people know :- "So Swakopmund (town in coastal Namibia) residents experience about 300 days of fog each year." The coastal regions get extensive foggy days and fog has moisture in it.
i wonder how you can get water from the air in dry places like Deserts.. The air in the desert is to dry for these kinds of projects even though many have tried.
Imagine every family has their own water collector in the village.
@@laixi4904 the warlord you speak of is?
That would do it. I wonder how much they cost.
@@laixi4904 I didnt think about it. As much I love Africa Its terrifying to think about the level of corruption and what has been done and can be done to its people. Unfortunately I can easily can imagine that what you said. Cartels already have control over a lot of water facilities that are run under proper firms or government allegedly. I dont remember which regions.
@@laixi4904 „local warlord“ are you drunk?
Why doesn’t the warlord make em pay for river water ???
Your thoughts are an enigma, but your mom still loved you!
@@IllIlllI Because the river goes on for miles, and you can't cover it all? This is a structure in one place, easy to control access to that.
Sir,
I am really impressed by your efforts of producing the clean water for the needy. May I know some details like what cost comes to per litre of produced water, will it produce more water near sea shores?
from my background knowledge, the most important things to be considered is the moist contained in air (we call it humidity- the higher the better). no matter where the location of the warka water tower to built is, the humidity is the most important. you can check using digital higrometer, or just check on your phone. another things is temperature different night and day. but don't worry. just can check from the tip of the leaves around you. if in the morning there is a dew, so your warka water tower is possible to be built. the question of how many water you can harvest, it really depend on the location and your conctruction... and it need some complicated calculation. just build it, and the answer is coming....i hope this gives your a shed of light
@@gedeardaunud1361 then the quantity of humidity is the base in which then tower will work ?
@@mohamedelabasery475 if you use Whatsapp you can reach me to discus this on +628174767372... it is interesting to understand the humidity behavior...
I'm curious on the bugs being attracted to or sticking in the mesh, let alone mold, moss, plants, dirt and debris in wind storms, pollen and fungus?
I don't think this would work, because it would rely on high humidity, which means the wood would quickly rot. It won't be sanitized by UV light with a constant haze in the sky around it.
@Peter Rabbit Well if you have humidity for part of the day or week and sheer sun for part, then I suppose you could get a decent amount of sanitary water. But that just further narrows down where these will work.
Eh it's better than nothing or the brown water they get from the creek 🤷🏼♀️ and I guess they can boil it
@@TheReaverOfDarkness like the redwoods, tallest trees on earth can grow so tall because they absorb water from the fog using their tree tops once they get to a certain height. And many creatures in baja california/Mexico don't have water sources but rely on the dew that's left on certain plant species in the early morning fog.
This water must be filtered and boiled, just like river water.
100 liters of water... at what relative humidity??? Will it blow over in the wind?
Right. at most it would produce maybe 1 pint overnight in average humidities. Unless you have fog every day. They might get 100 liters if they have a water hose filling it!
It's only going to produce a lot of water in places so humid that they don't have difficulty getting water. Now some places might struggle with getting water that isn't contaminated and this could help there, but they act like it'll work in the whole developing world when really it would, at best, work in 5% of it.
As thunderfoot put it. It will only work where water is plentiful any way.
@@warrmalaski8570 This one isn't nearly as bunk as the one Thunderf00t debunked. That one was a tiny portable device DIRECTLY claimed to get drinking water from a DESERT. This one is large, relatively cheap, and might actually supply a significant amount of basically clean water in a small number of areas which have contaminated water.
@@warrmalaski8570 I live in a super humid environment and we have problems getting water anyway. So this is perfect for us.
I like Thunderfoots videos but sometimes he exxagerates the unviability of a claim.
If it's open source, where are the project files and material specifications found?
Yeah, really.
it's protected by trade secret and the rights to use the design will be commercialised
You're gonna need a droid that speaks the binary language of "Bocce." I suggest shopping in Mos Eisley...
get real - it's a mesh. any tall, large surface area which slowly brings itself together at the bottom would do it.
@@Channel-tr1hx Yeah, but we want the construction documents for this one.
Very cool- the idea of the air well.
I had one in my mind that inhaled air from the atmosphere and condensed the water underground in a holding tank. I think your idea is very elegant
That's very interesting.. I want an air well but one that will focus more on condensation efficiency although 300 liters a day is nice if we multiply that by 5 we could have enough to create a hydroelectric power plant that produces clean water and electricity at the same time.. and that's all we really need because from that electricity and water we could create liquid hydrogen for free.. for combustion engines it burns clean and that's about as cheap as fuel comes considering water is the most abundant resource on the planet.
Thank you. This is inspirational and why I became a designer iin the seventies, inspired by 'design for the real world'. I am glad you you have followed thru. Bravo to You and All the people you have helped! God bless you and your teams..
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Genious, simply phantastic! Thanks for what you do for humanity!!!! May God bless you 🙏
quick!..Thunderf00t to the rescue..!
@user name he was a moron to begin with lol
@@hjertrudfiddlecock4394 who are you referring to?
This isn't a CGI model of a passive device that condenses water where it wasn't already condensing.
The temperature already drops below the dew point and they're in a humid region.
Notice the trees and grass and mud? Yeah, they're not lacking water even without this device as long as they can dig a well.
However, this is likely much higher quality water for the cost of only wood, cloth, rope, and manpower.
@@actually5004 People look at these rigs and then think - how do I do this with what I have available? If it was expensive people figure out how to do it cheap.
@@hjertrudfiddlecock4394 think the guy's a drooling moron too, but doesn't change he's right in this case on the water condensation principles and the energy volumes needed for it.
This video is 4 years old. Does anyone know how the current state of this project is doing?
I want to know as well
Debunked long ago. It was just fancy architecture with no chance of ever working. The usual.
@@harriehausenman8623 Link or spouting BS?
@@sir_greenz9163 ruclips.net/video/G4GHGBov15U/видео.html same principle although i dont know much about the warkawater project.
i did some research and it looks like the last design of the tower is from 2017 (www.warkawater.org/warkatower/)
"The project was initiated in early 2017, the construction works at the site started in December of the same year. Since March 2018, until the present, the construction works, on-site, have been put on hold due to the political and social situation in the country, and the COVID 19 pandemic."
from www.warkawater.org/haiti/
When they’ve finished the water tower the village could start building a solar roadway.
Solar frigging roadways
Lol right? All we need is a city of solar roads and water towers and we can sustain, like, 10 people!
@@bryanl1984 A hundred liters a day is no joke. I wonder if you have ever lived with no running water.
@@keithhollett4337 You know how you can get a village clean water without building a big ass tower that only works if there's fog to catch? Drill a well. It takes a shit ton of energy to pull water from air in dry environments. If there's humidity at supersaturation that can be captured, it means you're in a water plentiful environment where wells work. This is at best mis-led do-gooders and at worst (but more likely) a scam. Also, I watched that trickle rate and it's producing MAYBE a liter an hour.
At least this concept was meant to be used in a humid environment rather than an arid one. This is the first time I've seen a concept like this which actually seems feasible.
This is fantastic. Useful those who wish to be off grid. A question, what is the factor of resistance to high winds, and if the winds will get too high is it easy to dismantle?
This product was proven to be a fraud.
@@LucidDreamer54321 Interesting : could you please give more information ? Who has proven that it was a fraud ? Thanks.
@@LucidDreamer54321 sources please, talk is cheap
@@LucidDreamer54321 Tell me more about it ! thanks. It works in Peru...
@@michelmallet1574 Ca marche au Pérou... Bises !
Reminds me of that movie, whiskey tango foxtrot. Where the local women destroyed the Wells, because they enjoyed going to the river and being away from the men 😅
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4 years ago i remember ytube suggested me about bitcoin. now this ok am stocking water now for my future!
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LOL I remember several stories where well-meaning people arranged for water pumps to be placed inside the village, so the women would not have to walk many kilometres to and fro every day. The women were enraged! Now they no longer had privacy away from the men (and smaller children) to have some private and deep conversations, teach the women about 'women's stuff' and also they felt less useful and appreciated. So all in all what should have been something liberating actually turned out to be demeaning (loss of status) and restricting (loss of privacy and free/education time) to them.
The happy solution was of course placing the pumps away from the village, so the useful walks were shorter and safer and the water still was of better (safer to drink) quality.
There´s are tons of people in La Guajira Colombia yes in South America. This people would love to have this Warka Water System all along the the desertic areas in this Coutry Zone called La Guajira...
The question I have is how do you keep bird manure from contaminating the water. The structure looks like the perfect perches for birds.
Keep the forage away and build a scarecrow.
You notice how the top of the structure has metallic streamers attached to it, those 'flashers' really freak out birds, they don't like them at all. The rest of the structure is the wrong geometry for birds to land on easily, so you only need to keep them away from the top.
This is a pretty redesign of a very old technology. Unfortunately it is also a very niche technology, because it only works under very specific atmospheric conditions which only occur in a handful of places around the world and mostly only sporadically. This is not a reliable way to gather clean water. You may as well just hand out water barrels and some tarps for rainwater collection. A simple old fashioned closed well and hand pump would provide more water, more reliably and wouldn't be of as much risk of damage from weather or wildlife.
Morning dew
Morning dew it happens in a lot of the world even in deserts but it’s only at certain times of the day
I wonder if the shape of the net makes a difference. Other people have a net that they suspend in the air that does something very similar. But this one’s in a tube. It is beautiful to look at, Which of course is only secondary; but it doesn’t hurt that it’s attractive as well as effective.
Arturo Vittori, you are a genius! Salute!
How does the tower prevent the buildup of dangerous bacteria and fungus in such a high moisture area like that? Is the constant drip of water enough flow to keep everything sanitary?
I know it works, it's been working for millennia in some places, but how exactly does it protect against things like that?
Generally speaking, dew collection happens only at night. That is when the whole tower will be wet but during daytime, the heat from the sun will dry the whole tower and keep it free from any possible microorganism development.
@@narayanamurthy7805 thank you! That explains it!
And thats called renewable and smart. While not the best at getting water it does help for those not so advanced farming communities.
Good idea, I need to know from where to get the mesh. Is it made from Nylon or plastic, is it readily available ??
Google 'CloudCatcher'. They have explained their materials in their videos.
At least if it works local thugs are unlikely to take it over, steal the generator, pull up the plumbing, wiring, pump and motor to sell for scrap and the village chief won't be moving into what's left of the pumphouse and using the well head for an indoor shitter like what typically happens to all those charity paid for wells that get drilled in those areas. Worst case it ends up firewood.
It won't take long before its covered in algae - it's spores are also in the air.
Moisture and light is all it needs to appear and grow - and could turn toxic - how are you going to deal with this?
Or even mold
It won't make any water do don't worry.
i think you might be referring to cyanobacteria toxicity? and you forgot that they require nutrients to grow not just moisture & light- those nutrients are usually present in current water storages via land runoff of nitrogen & phosphorous etc - so the design looks like it prevents that! or maybe you were referring to fungi?
@@acari27 Nutrients could be blown onto the structure from the dust in the air, or be deposited via entangled insects and bird droppings.
Very simple add a water filtration device and preferably using RO. When you have decided do spew nonsense why stop with magic water generating bamboo basket.
This is a fantastic project. It will need some tweaking to improve it i.e keeping the water clean and making it more sturdy etc
'And it will be free for the people. as much as the light' .... wonderfull
This is great. How can we access the plans? Where I used to live in Oregon there were many days of fog where it was only raining in the forest. There are also properties that have no ground water. A tower like this could easily supply a home.
The plans are “hang a tarp”
I saw a documentary about people in Chile (or somewhere in south america) who already use nets to harvest water like this. This version looks far more complicated than the ones they were using. Still a nice idea.
Yes, www.fogquest.org
They have a heavy fog that comes in from the ocean there every night, so I think it is a different situation.
Its called atrapanieblas. its a system to take advantage of the camanchaca, a morning fog with high wáter density and affects commonly most of the coastal border in Chile. Also in south of Peru. Obviously he take the atrapanieblas as a referent, cause its a way older technique.
Used in South Africa and Namibia. Only works when the sea mists gets blown onto land. Started with the Namibian beetles that stands on their front legs to harvest moisture from the sea mist.
it "will" be free. As in, this is not a working project.
I wonder what's the price and longevity of this structure. In high moisture areas where it will produce substantial amt of water its possible to just treat whatever water is in rivers or lakes. So this whole beautiful thing may produce more waste and cost over life-cycle unless it can beat traditional water treatment tech.
@@Peteruspl Bamboo will not hold up very long in the sun and rain, leading to the structure needing to be replaced every other year.
@@billiamc1969 In a community where women & children waste 1/4 of their day collecting water, even frequent replacements are going to be cost saving. Plus the test models are made of bamboo; the actual ones are made of local materials, which may or may not hold up better over time.
My concerns are does it really work that well? Will the collection basins become mosquito breeding grounds? And how are they keeping dirty, cholera-carrying hands out of the collection basins?
@@frenstcht Another consideration is humidity level. The areas where this would be the most useful would also be the areas where low humidity would keep it from producing any usable quantity of water.
Godspeed to him if can make it work, but only I'll believe it when I see it.
@@billiamc1969 bamboo is an extremely fast growing and sustainable building material. in areas where it doesn't grow something else will need to be used.
I would be interested how the hygienic aspects of these work out
let's say the mesh material gets wet every night for 3-5 hours. The smoke of nearby cooking fires provides useable carbon sources to consume for algae. How long does it take for potentially poisonous microorganisms or lichen to propergate the area?
It is very helpful for villages...
I feel like there's much more efficient designs that maximize surface area and minimize construction effort/material usage. This looks more like an art project where the functionality was a secondary thought.
you are not as smart as you think you are, dear armchair expert
@@RhodianColossus Then provide info. It's so annoying when people put others down for stupid reasons. If he's wrong, correct him and don't be a dick about it. Miserable people I tell ya.
There are the people the get things accomplished and then there people who talk about things being accomplished. This is an important project that helps people everyday. Your doubt and insults aren't helping anyone. Seriously, If you have a better design then go build it.
@@mikeq4917 Just as much armchairing as the comment he replied to, except you're being a little bitch about it.
@@TylerWitucki there are also people that lie about things accomplished. About better design - it is quite difficult to make design that breaks physics law.
Que maravilha!!!
Por mais mentes como essa!!
Realmente impressionante!! Que se multiplique em todo lugar 🙏🏼
While interesting and creative, the low volume of water produced, makes this nothing more than a novelty. Far better to simply dig a well.
Its all about them raising money. They will get a bunch low info types to donate millions.
Boreholes are prohibitively expensive in many, many places in Africa. Even the hand drillers often take advantage of people. That said, if you have some nonprofit descending on villages with a dozen volunteers, you wonder why they can't use that manpower and expertise to drill instead of putting up a fogcatcher?
@@backtotheoldway6964 a well drilling truck costs about 400K for a top of the line unit. Shipping from the US to Africa 10K. Pipe and consumables 7$ per foot. This group of scam artists will raise tens of millions of dollars to pay themselves massive salaries and give the useful idiots in our society who donate to them a warm fuzzy feeling.
You want to see another one of these scams look up Water Seer.
@@backtotheoldway6964 Exactly
Even if the groundwater / table has been drained or even poisoned???????
This is an amazing video. Thank you - it's helping me with my worldbuilding.
Every home in the world should have one
This is absolutely amazing take my hat off to u bloody genius 💯👍🏼
If it really puts out 100 liters of water a day they need to give this guy a Nobel peace prize.
There is not enough surface area for one of those to do that. They are way over exaggerating.
@@tzoninghard2425 How do you mean surface area? Isn't this about the volume of the column of air which the tower occupies?
Few months later they return : "Does it work well ?" "Yeees"
"Then where you are going with the bucket?"....."The wind took it 5 kms away".
👎 No need for such a nonconstructive comment.
@@stepaushi fuck off
@@Alucard-gt1zf 👎
I don't see how anyone could thumbs down this. Hopefully a for profit corporation doesn't try to come in and make it illegal to collect water from the air. Wouldn't surprise me if they did.
Does anyone know why rain water is potable? Isn't it almost distilled, which is considered not healthy for drinking? I guess, that its purity is a lesser issue than the dirty river water or the absence of water at all in such distinations. Anyway, is it safe to drink distilled or rain water?
Yes Thunderf00t, this is the one....;)
I was just thinking "I wonder if thunderf00t is gonna rip this one apart"
It actually isn't the one. As long as the dewpoint is above the current temperature you get water formation on any surface, hence why grass is sometimes wet in the morning. This is a well established survival tactic, just scaled up.
Did he debunk this one?
they arn't saying that they will get the water from the desert and clearly shows them being in very foggy places and has no silly amount of produced water so....
This is far more convincing than any of the stuff he's debunked, if only because it _doesn't_ seem too good to be true, mainly due to the size of the thing and the speed at which it collects the water. I mean you see condensation on the grass and on windows all the time. It also doesn't look like a business case for investment but rather one of a humanitarian nature
Very nice, but it feels a bit like waterseer 2.0
It will only work when weather conditions are favourable, and the catch22 is: when they are, water is not that big of a problem
It will never work even at 100% humidity because there is no temperature gradient. This scammer is even more ballsy than the waterseer people.
@@alfredoprime5495 did you miss the part where he said the plans are OPEN SOURCE (that means free)
I've seen some insects using the same principle in the desert in the West of Namibia, i.e. the Namib Desert. Condensation collects on the insects' bodies and they just drink it. Alternatively, condensation collects on some cacti.
@@alfredoprime5495 No, the water wants to condense, but in the absence of a solid object it remains suspended as a very fine mist.
@@simonmultiverse6349 the claim is 100 L per day. As someone in another thread reminded me, this probably happens at nighttime when it's cooler, so then let's assume we've got 10 hrs to do this job (probably much much less than that, but let's keep the math simple). That's 10L per hour or 167 mL per minute or 2.78 mL per second. That's not the equivalent of the steady drip-drip of a leaky faucet but an actual thin stream. Multiply this rate by two or three if the actual condensation happens in the few hours before dawn. How is that in anyway realistic?
I won't say anymore that this absolutely won't work, but that 100L number? It's probably 1 or 2... hell, maybe even 5 if the air temperature drops enough (and those of you that live in super-humid climates know that things don't cool down *that* much at night), but 100? Nah.
In such humid area, why don't just make a water well?
Because it reduces ground water resources which are to the most degree not to very slowly replenishing! That's what happens in the USA but also in other parts of the world!
This is exponentialy cheaper
In many places wells are not safe to drink from. For exmple toxice minerals due to the geology, organic contamination.
@Kyaru Momochi I think the actual reason for this is the "drinkable water" part. Ground water and river water are not clean. Air captured water should be way cleaner for them to drink.
@@honglianglim8637 neither is water from the air, air pollution is a thing, ground water would honestly be probably cleaner considering the ground filters the water
If we want to help poor people across the planet, we spread this! If we want corporate control we build more pipes with locks. There's help with good ideas, and 'help' based on control and earning.
RUclips ThunderFoot Water Seer, this is a big fat scam to pull on the heart strings of the ignorant.
Thats a big move. Thank you & GOD Bless!
It's a beautiful tower. Made by generous and kind people. I salute you Sir.
Ethiopia is a very rich country in water they need means to clean the water not to collect it however Namibia is a vast desert with almost no water at all
I bet there is a vast difference in functionality based on humidity levels. I would be surprised if this works at all in areas with low humidity.
@@benjaminkesler5245 yes that's true in Namibia there's low humidity but close to the Atlantic Ocean shores there may be chance to get little humidity but not enough I hope mankind someday can transform sea salt water to fresh water with large quantities
condensation should be just pure water. There should only be little cleaning required I guess.
ruclips.net/video/G4GHGBov15U/видео.html
@@2credoS Mankind already has the technology to turn seawater into fresh water, LMAO
100L a day sounds very sketchy.
At least it actually works (I think) and is not a scam like waterseer (ruclips.net/video/LVsqIjAeeXw/видео.html).
It covers about 10 square metres, you only need about 10mm of rain and you're set. ;-)
2L a day is an adequate (drinking) supply for someone is static and not working much, take that to 4L a day for working people. These are minimum requirements, btw. We can math a little and you just hydrated 25 workers on one of these devices.
They’re not using washing machines and other modern day gadgets that would consume vast amounts of water in villages. This water is mostly used for cooking, washing themselves and water to drink for themselves and their animals.
5 liters a day would be a great success with this thing, and i doubt it'd make even that.
Invertionist that are up to invest in the future of separate and needy communities ARE TOO MUCH needed all around the world... Amén!
Bless you for developing this gift to benefit people who need water, but yet have made the world rich from what was stolen from them-
𝗅𝗈𝗅 𝗇𝗈
Tip: Dig a well.....it's sustainable
There is already a charity doing that quite efficiently so if they want to be on the news they need to do something different
Tip: use the internet to educate yourself....it's sustainable
@@TheMurlocKeeper Tip: move out of mommy's basement and get a job
So.much greenery and why there is no water.
@@somedumbozzie1539 Thanks! You mean to say there is moisture in the air, but does not condense and become rain? Follow up question : how does underground get moisture?
I can’t really believe those numbers. 100 L per day? Is it also raining at the same time?
on a misty morning or a damp night maybe .
This product was proven to be a fraud.
@@LucidDreamer54321 when ,and by whom ?
@@LucidDreamer54321 I looked it up online and found no evidence of your claim
It's a dew- and fog-catcher. Won't work in really dry climates.
And I wonder, how much water one tower could collect at a good site (high humidity) per day.
Study like palm trees how they grab water vaper, and some plants from deserts do it naturally. Creat safe sythedic fibers that mimic the bark.
Why dont they just move closer to the water??
In the past, humanity was well versed in packing up and moving on when resources ran low. That's not really an option these days, nomads are often described as illegal aliens and treated like criminals.
@@timokaaarp7779 If they cross national boundries... THEY ARE!!!
@@Golfnut_2099 No, they are not. Every human is allowed, by international law, to seek asylum. All humans may also seek refuge from violence, famine etc, hence the term, refugee. Neither of these things is illegal. No human is illegal.
Your world view is very narrow. Alas, your lack of knowledge and empathy is very common in these parts (YT comments section).
@@Golfnut_2099 the concept of humans moving around is not wrong. the concept of arbitrarily drawn up, and enforced, national boundaries, is.
@@daos3300 So... does that extend to your personal residence? Can I move into your house, eat your food, use your WiFi, and drink your beer?
Rows of fog net is infinitely more efficient than this. This could be like a landmark for taking pictures instead.
and the wind changes and bypass the rows... now what?
even if it works. these people are still living in an area that's not well serviced.
and it looks simpler/cheaper to implement and manage.. the only problem is that all of this crap relies on western disposable income and availability, not on the second to third world levels lol
Rows of fog net means rows of collecting receptacles and a lot of dead birds to clean off.
i have spent ALL MY LIFE. ALL OF THE MY LIFE!!! WORKING ONTHE AIR FROM THE WARTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND I SAYTHAT YOU CANNOT USE THE THING TO DO WHAT YO U WAN!!
Rows of fog nets require way more infrastructure, resources & space. How exactly is that "infinitely more efficient"?
RUclips before 2021: Nah this shit is whac
RUclips after 2021: this is epic we need to push this video..
4 years later... so what is the efficacy? Is it in production being used or did it have so many flaws that it only worked in very special circumstance?
Wondeful. The new world is coming.