Make Water from Surrounding Air:To Quench the Thirst Helps in Depleting Ground Water

By Tricitynews Reporter

Chandigarh 23^rd August:- The continuous depleting ground water in region is an alarm to meet the water requirement in near future. This has made State and Central Govt really concern to initiate various projects on water conservation and water recharge.

The answer to Chandigarh and Punjab water crisis, it seems, is blowing in the wind. Researchers at the Bangalore-based Scalene Energy Research Institute (SERI) have developed a Rain Tunnel - a technology that harnesses water vapour in the air and converts it into drinking water. This water is not only used for various domestic needs but also for the drinking. The organizations, water scientists, researches working on water recharge or water recycle is termed this invention as a big breakthrough. The inventors have come up with an interesting piece of machine on the principal of evaporation which will create water. The machine can create average 30 liters of drinking water in a single day.

Chandigarh Housing Board Chairman Maninder Singh Bains and Municipal Corporation Chandigarh Councilor Gurbax Rawat was also present on the occasion.

 While briefing the media at a press conference, Aditya Sethi from Aquaria said that there is abundance of water in our atmosphere which is estimated around 12 trillion water. We can only feel that but now this machine made possible to liquidize this moisture content in glass water. He added that just imagine doing the entire process inside a confined chamber, under a very controlled condition. Using a technology technically called Hypersonic Precipitation Radiative Evaporation (HSPRE), this is exactly what we have achieved and a new invention was born. Making rain in a chamber, collecting it, processing it and drinking it the purest form of water on the planet.

Aditya Sethi  said that Aquaria is available for domestic as well as commercial use once production begins next month, the former is capable of producing 30 liters of clean, filtered, drinking water within 24 hours (hot at 900C, room temperature, and cold at 80C). The machine is also solar energy driven and can be very handy in rural belts of the country. Work on the Rain Tunnel began four years ago at SERI, a 24-year-old organization that does research in healthcare (mainly heart disease, kidney disease and cancer); energy; water and food. The technology was also patented about one and a half years ago.

Aditya Sethi explained that the highest amount of water on the planet is in the atmosphere - 12 trillion liters. And for 3,000 years, people have been trying to tap into it via rudimentary processes-laying big tunnels, reducing the temperature using clay and collecting the condensed water. Then refrigeration technology came in, which started using condensation. He said that you freeze the air, the water condenses and you cool it down to a point where the atmospheric water is condensed and extracted. But this process needs a high amount of energy, raising the cost of the water produced. Some machines that produce the same quantity of water as the rain tunnel cost $2500, because the energy consumption and cost of operation is high.

Another variant of the machine which can really ease the misery of womenfolk for fetching water from distance is one which can produce water upto 10,000 litres.