Residents of El Talento, a small town in Colombia adjacent to the city of Cúcuta, have been introduced to the GEN-M, Watergen's medium-scale atmospheric generator (AWG) that produces water out of air.
The machine, a technological innovation of the Israel-based company, arrived in Cúcuta at the beginning of October thanks to Andrés Suárez, pastor of the Christian Center and general manager of the alliance project with the State of Israel in Colombia.
Suárez said he was driven by a desire to show residents in northern Colombia that such technology can provide some of the neediest communities in the region with safe drinking water.
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Requiring no external infrastructure to operate except for a source of electricity, Watergen's GEN-M can make up to 800 liters (200 gallons) of water per day.
With a weight of just 780 kilograms (1700 pounds), the machine is easily transportable and specially designed to help isolated communities that do not have adequate access to clean water.
Like Watergen's other AWGs, after collecting ambient air and cleansing it of impurities, the GEN-M uses the company's patented, heat-exchange GENius technology to create water by cooling the air at its dew point. Subsequently, the liquid is filtered and purified with carbon. Using ultraviolet rays, any remaining bacteria is eliminated.
Reprinted with permission from JNS.org.
