Posted on January 24, 2010.
Water Air ... More precious than oil! Overall, we awake to the decline of the serious problems of the world's freshwater. Irena Salina's recent award winning film "Flow" addresses some issues has opened our eyes to our most precious resource. From the highly questionable quality of water we get from our taps, sometimes almost unregulated content of bottled water, the film seriously challenges our predispositions toward government safety and oversight of our water supply .
But a truth even more frightening is that the world is facing perhaps its greatest challenge to mankind in the 21st century. The enormous quantity of fresh water used for agriculture, industry and daily life of 6.5 billion people has created drinking water shortages in many places and the problem worsens every day in most regions in the world. Our available fresh water supplies are polluted and contaminated at an alarming rate that mankind's activities continue to dump chemicals, pesticides, metals, waste water, pharmaceuticals, and a host of other pollutants and dirt in our lakes, rivers, streams and oceans. More than eighty percent of hospital beds in the world is filled after a waterborne disease, poor hygiene, sanitation or poor as a direct result of little or no access to drinking water.
Climate change and altered global weather patterns also play a major role in disrupting our supply of freshwater. Forecasts indicate that this will have serious repercussions on vegetation, agriculture, forestry and ecosystems worldwide causing further problems and disruptions for all mankind in the next decade.
Almost every day now, the press talks about some form of water related issue giving indication after indication of the growing problems regarding water supply in the world. However, despite repeated warnings and increased public awareness many people continually abuse, take for granted, and pollute our most precious and valuable, while giving much more attention to the price of a barrel of oil and scores of sporting events. Fortune magazine says, "water will be the 21st century what oil was in the 20th century."
Have you ever stopped to consider how precious water really is? How important it is to our health? You realize that water is the essence of life? And what would happen if you suddenly you no longer had access to it? Do you know that muscle tissue contains about 75% water. Blood contains 95% water, body fat contains 14% water and bone has 22% water. Normally, a baby is made up of about 75% water, an adult male of about 60%, and an adult female of about 55% water. Water is literally the only ingredient that all living organisms on our planet must have to support us. We simply can not support life as we know without water.
And as the questions and problems posed by the shortage and contamination of our groundwater supplies is happening is very important, almost forgotten, and completely harvested water source on our planet. Air! There is moisture in the air called the dew point. Many people are surprised to learn that at some point there is about 3.4 quadrillion gallons (3,100 cubic miles) of water in the atmosphere billions and billions of gallons per day to be recycled through the cycle hydrology.
What does this mean for humanity? Well, it gives us an almost entirely intact, unused, unharvested, replenshible source of drinking water per day. The technology is there, and has been around for a while, but public awareness is very low. The bottled water companies certainly do not want you to know this. Your knowledge of this technology could reduce the billions they are trying to convince you that bottled water is healthier than tap water.
Atmospheric water generators pull air into the u.