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The 411: Providing Water for the Most Vulnerable
Found on: http://www.waterinception.org/our-story.html
Our technological solutions to the water crisis:
Air to Water Generators
For situations where no water is available
Water Purificators
For situations where water is available but not safe for consumption
Water Desalinators
For situations where water is available but too salty for consumption
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Everything started in 2016, when Nhat Vuong Founder of Water Inception and Vietnamese refugee, who grew up in Switzerland met an inventor who made a machine, that could literally turn air into clean water, even in desert conditions.
A few months later, Nhat , visited a refugee camp near Tripoli in Lebanon with the help of local Global Shapers, to find out about water situation of the Syrian people living there.
The camp was supporting 147 Syrian refugees, including 100 children aged from 1 to 12 years old.
The residents were not receiving enough clean water in the camp and many families could not afford to buy bottles of water at the local store every day.
In some cases, children had to sell flowers on the street to support their parents.
Distressed by their difficult situation, Nhat returned to Switzerland and told their story to Jean-Philippe Delacour, a friend from childhood, who Nhat knew was sensitive to such issues.
They would later co-found Water Inception in 2017 and launch the campaign #WaterForRefugees on the 22nd of March to fund a pilot project in the Lebanese camp.
In Cornavin, a condenser alert on the water crisis
The size of an industrial air conditioner, the machine will be exposed Saturday in the large hall of Cornavin station by the NGO Water Inception. "On March 22nd, International Water Day, this device is a reminder that hundreds of millions of people do not have access to clean water, and that many - mostly women - walk on average six hours per day. day to bring back to their loved ones, "says Nhat Vuong, the Nyonnais who initiated this initiative.
His first project? The installation in a Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon, near Tripoli, of a similar steam condenser manufactured by Aquaer, a company of the Spanish inventor Enrique Veiga. Water Inception launches a crowdfunding campaign on the Internet, in an attempt to raise the 50,000 euros needed to buy and install this machine and the fourteen solar panels that feed it.
"The goal is to provide solutions against the water crisis to the most vulnerable - refugees or earthquake victims"
"Beyond this awareness-raising effort, the goal is to provide solutions against the water crisis to the most vulnerable populations - refugees or earthquake victims," says one who was born in a boat camp people, before landing in Switzerland with his parents, at the age of 2 months. "This capacitor, which makes it possible to exploit the low humidity of the ambient air, remains one of the most autonomous equipment, even if other solutions, less expensive - filter, desalinator - are mobilizable," explains the NGO. , which also works with the St. Gallen manufacturer Trunz Water Systems.
At the opening of the International Water Forum, held all week in BrasÃlia, the United Nations unveiled a disturbing report that nearly half of humanity lives in areas where water may be scarce once a year. This summit is held as a metropolis like Cape Town is still trying to push the date of the "day zero" - the day when nothing will come out of the taps, initially announced for March - by imposing on its inhabitants to be limited to 50 liters per day. Drastic restrictions that allow, for now, to delay the disaster.
Two years ago, the previous World Water Resources Report estimated the economic cost of supply insecurity at $ 500 billion. Taking into account the environmental damage, the bill could reach 1% of GDP (gross domestic product) worldwide.
In their latest update, the United Nations focuses on "nature-based" solutions for water management, from using dry toilets to restoring natural ecosystems. One hope: not everything is a matter of money, but "reorientation and more efficient use of existing funding", about $ 10 billion to be spent on water infrastructure between 2013 and 2030. (TDG)
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