Hello Sahana, you are correct, there are many technologies that can help us, among the technologies I consider to be of great importance are those that will help us optimize the way we harvest rainwater, integral systems in housing development including filtering pavement, rainwater harvesting rooftops and biodigesters I believe will play an important role in the near future. The way we harvest water from atmospheric humidity I believe will also play an important role, Atmospheric Water Generators (AWG) can be applied even for drinking purposes. Finally, desalination technologies that are cost-efficient will probably take the prize home, ranging from electron flow, to ion exchange and chemical adsorption. Many available desalination technologies could potentially work on solar power, this will be a major trend in my opinion. Another technology I believe holds high promises are salts that can retain alot of water or "solid rain". I believe Solid Rain will have a great impact on regions that suffer of droughts and low annual precipitation. This technology consists of a salt that can absorb up to 500 times its molecular weight but as water. Once it has "saturated" with water, it swells up into a gelatinous cube that prevents the water from evaporating or lixiviating into the soil, keeping it available for the plant to take water as it needs. Once the plant has dried out the salt, the material goes back to its dust form and can re-absorb water to become once again, a rich water source for the plant. This cycle can repeat over years. It is actually been used for agricultural purposes in deserts. Additionally, internet and software tools that could help us yield valuable data concerning the use and needs of water, will certainly lead us to a more efficient manner of water usage. Regarding water purification in rural areas, I believe Biosorption could be applied for the removal of metals, it is very cheap since it consists of natural ion exchangers that come from many different types of agro-industrial wastes. Large reactor trains of different cheap biosorbents could be set up to remove a wide variety of pollutants and obtain a good water quality from wells. Again, rainwater through cheap harvesting systems could be another option in rural areas as well as Solid Rain, since it could help reduce and divert the use of watering water to other domestic uses. There are also many cheap biomanipulation techniques that can help improve the quality of land water systems, depending on the use of water one requires, this could also be applied in such rural communities.
Published by Kevin Kelly, Kurimexicana - Head of Research and Development
Hello Sahana, you are correct, there are many technologies that can help us, among the technologies I consider to be of great importance are those that will help us optimize the way we harvest rainwater, integral systems in housing development including filtering pavement, rainwater harvesting rooftops and biodigesters I believe will play an important role in the near future. The way we harvest water from atmospheric humidity I believe will also play an important role, Atmospheric Water Generators (AWG) can be applied even for drinking purposes. Finally, desalination technologies that are cost-efficient will probably take the prize home, ranging from electron flow, to ion exchange and chemical adsorption. Many available desalination technologies could potentially work on solar power, this will be a major trend in my opinion. Another technology I believe holds high promises are salts that can retain alot of water or "solid rain". I believe Solid Rain will have a great impact on regions that suffer of droughts and low annual precipitation. This technology consists of a salt that can absorb up to 500 times its molecular weight but as water. Once it has "saturated" with water, it swells up into a gelatinous cube that prevents the water from evaporating or lixiviating into the soil, keeping it available for the plant to take water as it needs. Once the plant has dried out the salt, the material goes back to its dust form and can re-absorb water to become once again, a rich water source for the plant. This cycle can repeat over years. It is actually been used for agricultural purposes in deserts. Additionally, internet and software tools that could help us yield valuable data concerning the use and needs of water, will certainly lead us to a more efficient manner of water usage. Regarding water purification in rural areas, I believe Biosorption could be applied for the removal of metals, it is very cheap since it consists of natural ion exchangers that come from many different types of agro-industrial wastes. Large reactor trains of different cheap biosorbents could be set up to remove a wide variety of pollutants and obtain a good water quality from wells. Again, rainwater through cheap harvesting systems could be another option in rural areas as well as Solid Rain, since it could help reduce and divert the use of watering water to other domestic uses. There are also many cheap biomanipulation techniques that can help improve the quality of land water systems, depending on the use of water one requires, this could also be applied in such rural communities.