David Hertz harvests water from a Skywater machine in Big Sur, California.
(CNN)Machines
designed by a California-based team can produce, in some cases, up to
300 gallons of fresh drinking water a day by pulling it straight from
the air. And the team just won a $1.5 million prize for it.
The
machines, dubbed Skywater, were created by the Skysource/Skywater
Alliance, a team of sustainability experts from Venice, California.
Skywater machines, housed in big metal boxes, are atmospheric water
generators that condense water vapour from the atmosphere and turn it
into drinking water. The machines can be powered by solar energy or the
burning of biofuels. Depending on the model, they can be used for
households, for farming or for emergency relief efforts.
The prize, called the Water Abundance XPRIZE,
was awarded Saturday by XPRIZE, a California nonprofit that runs
competitions with sometimes multimillion dollars in prize money aimed at
creating solutions for the world's problems. The Water Abundance XPRIZE
was a two-year competition that sought to find answers to the global
water crisis by facilitating the development of new technologies.
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