To solve our Water Crisis, we need innovations that increase FRESHWATER supply while increasing sustainability and resilience of Nature's ecosystems --- We cannot just rely on using less water --- AIR can be a new source of free fresh drinking water everywhere on Earth. As we are not likely to ever have unlimited cheap power, this blog focuses on water-in-air and on insights gained from the world of humans, plants, animals & insects to engineer a BIOLOGICAL way to EXTRACT WATER FROM AIR
Monday, November 15, 2010
US Precipitation - A potential new source of drinking water?
"...... the United States withdraws 339 Billion gallons of ground and surface water a day. Although 4 TRILLION gallons of water falls on us daily in the form of precipitation, much of that disappears in evaporation and runoff ......" (National Geographic Special Edition - Water: The Chaos of Supply).
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dew,
precipitation,
source,
water
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