Creating a water filter from the air, the Arizona associate associate professor was awarded half a million dollars

Cody Friesen, an associate professor at the University of Arizona, was recently awarded the Lemelson-MIT award this year with a $ 500,000 bill for creating air filters that trap water vapor and filter it into drinking water.

This annual award is organized to 'honor individuals who transform ideas into inventions to improve the world we live in'.

This Friesen invention can be installed in the most remote places in the world.

Friesen invented the technology, founding Zero Mass Water in Phoenix, Arizona. Up to the present time, his invention has been used in more than 30 countries on 6 continents. He said he would use his bonus to install an additional 200 water purification panels in Bahia Hondita, Colombia with the help of Conservetion International. This project will provide people here 3 liters of clean water daily.

The beauty of the technology that Mr. Friesen invented was that there was no need for pumps, no electricity, no infrastructure, so they could be installed in the most remote places in the world.Using the heat of sunlight to separate and condense water vapor , these panels can be installed in deserts with air humidity of only 5%. They can also connect to global networks to track productivity.

Earlier, the technology of Friesen and Zero Mass Water has helped victims of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico have access to clean water. In addition, the water filtration system at the Caribbean West Indies Children's Hospital produces 2,550 liters of clean water each month, replacing more than 5,000 half-liter pure water bottles.