In Chile’s Atacama Desert, Canadian NGO FogQuest had the idea of setting up membranes known as “Fog Catchers” which can recover water from fog. First, the water vapours are trapped in the membrane’s netting, where they transform into water droplets, before trickling down into reservoirs with capacity for up to 1,000 litres of water per day.

Lima, the capital of Peru, is located in a desert where there is almost zero rainfall but where the humidity is 98%. Prompted by this observation, the students at an engineering college had the idea of creating a billboard which will capture the moisture and turn it into drinking wate

The major current trend on the web is the huge rise of social games. Social games are games that are designed to be played online with friends. They often use social networks’ infrastructure, and enable players to share the gaming experience.

Desalination supplies nearly 200 million people world-wide, and already represents more than 60% of the drinking water resource of some countries. It is estimated that this technology will be producing 2% of the total water consumed by 2015. Many questions are asked about desalination: here are some answers…

At the launch event for the Melbourne (Australia) desalination plant, we produced an animated infographic that explains how and why sea water is desalinated to make it potable.

The upcoming Rio+20 Earth Summit to be held June 20-22 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will focus on several fundamental problems, including that pertaining to water. Right now, 884 million people around the world still do not have access to drinking water and 2.6 billion have no access to basic sanitation services. Access to water and sanitation for all is thus one of the core issues of the Rio+20 Conference, which will set new courses for the future in regard to sustainable development.