Collect water from the air

Cultivation in areas where water is scarce like desert is extremely difficult and risky. That urged Pieter Hoff, who worked as a flower exporter in the Netherlands, to create a Groasis Waterboxx box to collect water from the air to supply plants.

The idea of ​​this 50.8 x 25.4 cm box comes from bird droppings. Bird manure covers and supplies water to the fruits that birds release, helping them grow into plants.

This box surrounds young trees. The plate on the box collects night dew, while the wick attached under the disk helps regulate the water supply to the plant.

Pieter Hoff and the box follow his idea.

The box is made of plastic but the author is thinking of a bio-plastic alternative to destroy the box after it is broken. The box has been tested in the Sahara desert and the proportion of live experimental plants is 90%.

People in Peru also devised ways to place nets on hillsides to collect night dew to supplement scarce water. Dew settles into thick meshes, falling into the trough below and flowing into the reservoir.

These nets help Peruvian people get 480 liters of water every day for them to grow, wash and cook.