One of the most exciting technology arrivals, in my on-going 50L Home Coalition experimental Water Odyssey, was the Majik Water Box hashtagAtmosphericWaterGenerator (AWG).
I had seen this in action in Kenya, with Beth Koigi of MAJIK WATER when we were filming for Brave Blue World Foundation
Beth shared her own personal story, of being frustrated with seeing people get sick from drinking tap water at her University dorm and just being used to the fact it kept happening over and over again. Not satisfied with accepting this, Beth began by researching water filters. But then, when a major drought came a year later, there wasn’t any water available to filter. This led her on a journey to look at what do you do, when rivers and wells run dry.
Beth connected with two fellow innovators and entprenneurs and so, Majik Water was founded!
We caught up with Beth at an orphanage in Kenya, where the AWG provided a reliable method to provide safe drinking water for the children.
I will never forget the impact it had on me being there and seeing how prescious water was. The rains had just arrived, and the children were out happily washing their clothes, with rain water, as this was something they had not been able to do for weeks.
OK, so it makes sense in a situation like this, but why an AWG in Ireland, some might ask. There is plenty of water there.
The idea came about from a conversation with my good friend and NASA Life Support Systems Scientist, Michael Flynn
I was asking Mike for some advice on how to go about grey water re-cycling. During Covid 19, with the NASA lab closed, and looking for something to do, Mike tore out his bathroom and built a grey water re-use system, as you do when you are a bored NASA Life Support Systems Water Engineer with some time on your hands. In the course of the conversation, Mike suggested while I could of course get to 50L as a goal, what might make it more meaningful and interesting on a wider scale, was if I could take the grey water, re-use that, and then, once that has been used and has become black water, recycle that, polish it, and use it to irrigate the plants in my greenhouse and then capture the humidity evapotranpired from their leaves using an AWG system and use it for drinking, and in doing so, start the cycle all over again in a circular system. It’s all One Water.
So I contacted Beth Koigi, and Beth very kindly shipped a unit to the UK, which Ann-Marie Brady put in the trunk of her car, and drove to Cork and Kim Wu was here when it arrived and we all had fun unboxing and installing it.
I love drinking the water from it. I like the taste of it. Which may be simply because, it has no chlorine taste or risk of THM’s or PFAS. Or maybe because I know, at least some of it, has just been evapotransired by a plant.
Next installment will be the Swiss Technology Toilet. The Rolex of Toilets. SWATEC from Swiss Aqua Technologies .
Thanks Michal Kolda.
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