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Designing Solutions for the Global Water Crisis
Over the next 20 years, the world’s population is predicted to increase from 6.4 billion to 7.2 billion, but the average supply of water per person is expected to fall by one-third. Of all the planet’s renewable resources, fresh water is the most difficult to purify, expensive to transport and impossible to substitute. “Water is not like oil. There is no substitute. If we continue to take it for granted, much of the earth is going to run short of water or food – or both,” says the Water World Council.
This is the problem that this project sets its sight on. We need to look at other methods for obtaining water, and the one place that water will always be is in the air. By extracting water from the air, we can lighten the volume of water we use from slow-renewing resources.
This project aims to explore the possibilities of using dehumidification techniques to provide a viable source of clean, drinkable water. It is outside the scope of this project to experiment at a scale large enough for groups of people. This is why I have focused on the individual, and what dehumidification can do for the water needs of a single person….View the full document
