Moses West wants clean water to be accessible to all.
Solving An Issue Impacting Billions
The U.S. Army veteran and engineer has used technology to develop an Atmospheric Water Generator that turns air into clean water. This groundbreaking invention has the potential to address the needs of more than a billion people who currently do not have clean water.
Forbes reports that while water covers 70% of our planet, only 3% is fresh, and the majority of this fresh water — two-thirds — is held in frozen glaciers. It also highlights that 1.1 billion people lack water access, 2.7 billion struggle to find clean water at least one month each year, and 2.4 billion face issues with insufficient sanitation.
Despite these statistics, West is looking to change these outcomes through his Atmospheric Water Generator.
“The one crisis that everyone says, ‘We’re going to run out of water,’ and I’m sitting here saying, ‘No you’re not. You’re walking around in it every day. Trillions of gallons of it, you’re walking in it,’” he said in a YouTube video shared through his foundation, Moses West Foundation.
How It Works
The idea to build the Atmospheric Water Generator was inspired by his neighbor in Hawaii who shared a similar concept, but on a smaller scale. West recalls feeling “mesmerized” after he took a sip and decided to scale the idea to impact more people.
“He said, ‘Just pull and drown the humidity in the air. It’s just a molecule with water in the air. It doesn’t bring anything with it.’ That’s when I got started and my idea was make industrial quantities of water,” West mentioned in the video.
Impact
The retired Army veteran said he was informed by an engineer at a university that the concept had the power to produce over four trillion gallons of water annually with “a small fraction of power that we throw away.”
The Atmospheric Water Generator has been used on nine missions in areas that have faced disasters or are in dire need of water, its website mentioned. This includes Flint, MI, which received over 3,000 gallons of water per day through the technology, as well as Puerto Rico, which CNN notes.
More recently, a water generator was placed in San Antonio, TX, at Trinity University.
“All of the water you see here has been pulled from the air and is now perfectly clean drinking water. These machines save lives. These machines protect our future generations. These machines can change the world. Thank you for all your support,” he said on an Instagram post.
Bringing It To Homes
What’s more, West aims to introduce the technology into households, sharing a preview on Instagram.
“The world’s best Atmospheric Water Generator. This is what we are working on to get into your homes. I’m excited about the possibilities that this holds for each and every one of you,” he wrote in the caption. “We’ve got a lot of incredible things coming up on the horizon and I can’t tell you enough how much I appreciate you all following along on the journey. Water is a human right and we are working to protect that right around the clock.”
