- SOURCE’s hydropanels would produce over 40,000 litres of water from the air.
- SOURCE’s hydropanels captures air to produce potable water.
- The technology would be beneficial to remote communities that can’t access centralized treatment plants and pipelines.
A partnership between SOURCE Global and Conservation International provides access to sustainable, clean drinking water to the Indigenous Binta’t Karis people in the Philippines. SOURCE is set to produce over 40,000 litres from the air through hydropanels powered only by sunshine.
According to SOURCE, its hydropanels are solar-powered and only need sunlight and air to produce the drinking water. The company believes its technology is the only scalable off-grid option that can produce pure, high-quality drinking water without a source of water or electricity. Unlike most water production processes that involve cleaning, SOURCE’s hydropanels captures pure water, which is then mineralised to taste better. The hydropanels filter the air before it passes through the system, then the water is kept clean and ozonised inside the integrated reservoir.
This technology is expected to be beneficial in isolated communities without access to centralized treatment plants and pipelines. SOURCE believes that the combination of different water sources, rainwater, surface water, and bore water (for non-potable purposes such as farming, cleaning, and sanitation) and independent, decentralized technologies like SOURCE that can leapfrog infrastructure and provide high-quality drinking water to communities in the same way that mobile telephones and distributed solar have in other sectors.
The Philippines project was installed in mid-2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, which restricted inter-island travel in the country. SOURCE, however, worked with the local community and local installation partners to overcome the challenges to deploy the hydropanels.