OREANDA-NEWS. Spanish engineers learned how to get water from the air. According to Reuters, the technology should save the inhabitants of arid regions from thirst.

“Our goal is to get to places like refugee camps where there is no drinking water,” said Enrique Veiga, an 82-year-old engineer who invented a system for extracting liquid from the air during Spain's severe drought in the 1990s. His Aquaer company already supplies clean water to Namibian communities and Lebanese refugee settlements.

The founder of the company admitted that the idea was to create not only an effective, but also a convenient device for people who have to travel kilometers to extract water. Aquaer devices work on the same principle as air conditioners - they use electricity to cool the air until it turns into water.

Small portable units can produce 50-75 liters per day, while larger versions can produce up to five thousand liters. The uniqueness of Weig's technology lies in the ability of devices to process air at extremely high temperatures and low humidity. For example, they will be able to extract liquid in 40-degree heat with air humidity up to 10 percent.

In 2017, Vietnamese refugee Nhat Vuong joined the Weig case. He founded the non-profit organization Water Inception, which brought the Aquaer, a device capable of generating 500 liters per day, to a camp near Tripoli. In addition, Nhat is raising funds for the installation of solar panels so that the project is spending less on electricity and is less harmful to the environment.