{"id":138568,"date":"2022-04-24T22:08:16","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T03:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/spanish-aquaer-develops-a-machine-that-extracts-drinking-water-from-thin-air"},"modified":"2022-04-24T22:08:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T03:08:16","slug":"spanish-aquaer-develops-a-machine-that-extracts-drinking-water-from-thin-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/spanish-aquaer-develops-a-machine-that-extracts-drinking-water-from-thin-air","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Aquaer develops a machine that extracts drinking water from thin air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spanish-aquaer-develops-a-machine-that-extracts-drinking-water-from-thin-air2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is nothing more essential to life on Earth than water. It\u2019s a cruel irony that the majority of the world\u2019s surface is covered in water, yet only a fraction of it is suitable for human consumption. Around 785 million people globally still lack access to clean, safe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inceptivemind.com\/tag\/Drinking-Water\/\">drinking water<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With an aim to provide drinking water where no other sources of water are available, a Spanish company, Aquaer, has devised a machine capable of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inceptivemind.com\/portable-3d-printed-air2water-device-produces-clean-safe-water-air\/17582\/\">extracting drinking water<\/a> from thin air. Invented by Enrique Veiga, the 82-year-old engineer, the machine can operate even in areas where humidity is low, as in the desert.<\/p>\n<p>The machines utilize the same principle that causes condensation in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inceptivemind.com\/tag\/air-conditioner\/\">air-conditioning units<\/a>. It uses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inceptivemind.com\/tag\/electricity\/\">electricity<\/a> to cool the surrounding air, and then it takes the process a step further by condensing the water vapor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing more essential to life on Earth than water. It\u2019s a cruel irony that the majority of the world\u2019s surface is covered in water, yet only a fraction of it is suitable for human consumption. Around 785 million people globally still lack access to clean, safe drinking water. With an aim to provide [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}