The lack of water affects several countries in the world. However, and motivated to create something durable, an 82-year-old retired Spanish engineer was able to create a machine capable of producing drinking water from the humidity in the air.
It should be noted that Enrique Veiga had already developed a machine for drying in Spanish fields in the 1990s. The machine can condense moisture from the air and produce up to 3,000 liters of water per day even in areas where humidity is minimal, such as the desert. Currently, there are 29 regions suffering from the lack of the vital liquid, this directly affects approximately 1,000 million people. Currently and thanks to his own company, Aquaer, the water obtained by Veiga’s invention is already being delivered to regions of Namibia. In general, the process is simple, the machinery takes advantage of the electricity they generate to cool the air until it reaches the point of being able to condense it into water.
Veiga’s machine can withstand humidity between 10% and 15%.Nhat Vuong, a Vietnamese refugee living in Switzerland at the time, founded a charity called Water Inception in 2017 to bring water to those who needed it most, To achieve this, he bought a machine from the Spaniard and took it to Lebanon. The engineer and inventor of the Spanish company Aquaer, Enrique Veiga, 82, next to the machine he invented to extract drinking water from the air before its first commissioning, in Carrión de los Céspedes, near Seville, Spain, 26 July 2021. REUTERS/Jon Nazca. The next objective to have more sustainable methods is to develop solar panels to reduce the use of electrical supplies. So far, no private company has invested in Veiga’s machine, however, the interest of the world’s population has received it very well, realizing how good it can do for the environment.
