Warka Water towers harvest drinkable water from the air Design Dezeen

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Subscribe to our YouTube channel for the latest architecture and design movies: http://bit.ly/1tcULvh • Like Dezeen on Facebook: / dezeen • Follow Dezeen on Twitter: / dezeen • Follow us on Instagram: / dezeen • Check out our Pinterest: / dezeen • In this exclusive movie, Italian architect Arturo Vittori explains how his wooden Warka Water structures can provide clean drinking water for rural communities in the developing world. • The tower consists of a bamboo frame supporting a mesh polyester material inside. Rain, fog and dew condenses against the mesh and trickles down a funnel into a reservoir at the base of the structure. A fabric canopy shades the lower sections of the tower to prevent the collected water from evaporating. • Warka Water is currently represented by a tower that reaches up to the sky to collect moisture from the air and brings it down by gravity to the people, Vittori says. • The performance of the towers varies depending on the weather, but Vittori's aim is to create a structure that would enable the community to extract up to 100 litres of water a day without the reservoir running dry. • Read more on Dezeen: https://www.dezeen.com/?p=1005319 • WATCH NEXT: Live talk on waste and sustainability for Johnson Tiles - • Live talk on waste and sustainability... • Subscribe to our YouTube channel for the latest architecture and design movies: http://bit.ly/1tcULvh • Like Dezeen on Facebook: / dezeen • Follow Dezeen on Twitter: / dezeen • Follow us on Instagram: / dezeen • Check out our Pinterest: / dezeen

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