WatAir – Dew-Catching Pyramid by Joseph Cory & Eyal Malka
WaterAid and Arup’s drawing water challenge to find new ways to deal with water and sanitation issues has come up with some potentially winning ideas. The winning entry is ‘WatAir’ – a 96m, inverted pyramid array of panels that collects dew from the air and turns it into 48 litres of fresh water per day. Designed by a pair of architects, the implication of their scheme is that it could provide a constant supply of fresh water in polluted and remote areas in just about any climate.
Architect: Joseph Cory & Eyal Malka [ Via: TreeHugger ]

















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wenqi says
I want to get the tel,fax ,e-mail and webside about watair news .I want to contect with the man about the news of watair.thank
de Giey Pierre says
Hello, I am also looking to contact Joseph Cory and Eyal Malka in order to ask them a price offer for their installation.
Thanks for your help
Pierre
email:pierredegiey@gmail.com
phone :00 32 475 93 03 42
zehra ismet says
Hello,
I would like to get the communcation details of Cory and Malka in order to learn more about their work. (Tel number, email or adress)
Thanks in advance
z..i.
estefania says
HI
I would also like to get the communication details of Joseph Cory and Eyal Malka(tel number or email) we are working in a docuemntary focused on water and it would be very useful for us to get in touch with them .
thanks.
EstefaniaMaso
jessica says
anyone got their information about email or telphone? please send email to me . i really need these information. please send email to me .thanks
jessica@yahoo.cn
Jessica says
Hi,
I would like to get detail information about waterair, because I born at a remote village in asian , it is very difficult to get enogh drunk waterin spite of I am not live there, I think it is very useful for our hometown. so please help me ,and give my more information about them .thansk so much!!
Jessica
Donna says
A smaller version sounds good for emergency water needs during a crisis. Many people stock food and water for such times, but water is harder to store and yet is essentical for many of the food items that are stored, as well as drinking and hygeine.
I did not see a place where these are now being sold, thus not a price.
John says
THere is a company that make comercial versions. See:
http://www.wataireinternational.com/products.html
Peter says
I have searched up and down the net for this, but found no contact information or detailed description.
However, the device in a small version is rather simple and cheap to build. Only thing needed is the material to collect dew.
This article on Wiki is short, but has some basic info on the principle.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dew
Also take a look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condensation
As you see, nature does it all the time, and the above device is simply just copying the same principles nature uses.
As I have not seen any reports on the results of the above device, I am inclined to think that it works, but the production claim may be a little overrated. Anyhow – I decided to build one myself and investigate how to improve the concept.
Alessandro Frizza says
Hi Peter
i live in Mexico, in Monterrey (semiarid) and i want to know if you build it?
Could we interchange info?
I really need something like that ..
Thanks
Best Regards
Alessandro Frizza
Alessandro Frizza says
Hi Peter
i live in Mexico, in Monterrey (semiarid) and i want to know if you build it?
Could we interchange info?
I really need something like that ..
Thanks
Best Regards
Alessandro Frizza
Gurhel says
it’s based off a simple technique i learned in boy scouts… dig a hole put a cup in the center, cover said hole with tarp,cloth..ect.. put stone in middle wait for air to cool, water forms on cloth rollsd done in to cup…
Martin says
This knowledge has been around for centuries, used commonly by armies in the desert, boy scouts etc. You can do this in your back garden with a tarp, a pebble and a bowl. Hardly worth handing out awards for..oh wait, two architects made a silver one, quick give them an award!
susi castro says
will put it to my house
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