El diseñador italiano Arturo Vittori inició este proyecto (2012) llamado WarkaWater, que es parte científico, escultórico, urbano, social y climático. Consiste en una serie de torres en forma de palmeras que captan la humedad del aire, produciendo agua potable mucho más barata que cualquier otro sistema existente. La idea noes nueva, pues esto funciona por condensación, tal como lo hacían Los cazavientos de los Fremen en la serie “Dune”, de Frank Herbert. Pero ahora es una realidad con la que se podrá ayudar a muchas comunidades con problemas de agua en todo el mundo. Aquí esta un PDF del proyecto… When Italian designer Arturo Vittori and Swiss architect Andreas Vogler first visited Ethiopia in 2012, they were shocked to see women and children forced to walk miles for water. Only 34 percent of Ethiopians have access to a reliable water supply. Some travel up to six hours a day to fetch some or, worse, resorts to using stagnant ponds contaminated by human waste, resulting in the spread of disease. Worldwide, a whopping 768 million people — two and a half times the U.S. population — don’t have access to safe drinking water. So just imagine if we could just pull water out of thin air? That’s what Vittori and Vogler asked once they saw the magnitude of problem and vowed to take action. Their firm, Architecture and Vision, has since come up with WarkaWater, a majestic palm-like structure that may look like something you’d see in a modern art museum but it’s been designed to harvest water from the air. WarkaWater, which is named after an Ethiopian fig tree, is composed of a 30-foot bamboo frame containing a fog-harvesting nylon net that can be easily lowered for repairs and to allow communities to measure the water level. Collecting water through condensation is hardly a new technique, but the creators of WarkaWater say their tree-inspired design is more effective, maximizing surface and optimizing every angle to produce up to 26 gallons of drinkable water a day — enough for afamily of seven… http://n.pr/1p1nQr3