{"id":84797,"date":"2021-07-25T07:07:06","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T04:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/blog\/water-from-air\/"},"modified":"2021-07-25T07:07:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T04:07:06","slug":"water-from-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/water-from-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Water From Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>H<sub>2<\/sub>O<sub>LL<\/sub>, an innovative Atmospheric Water Generator (AWG) technology developed at the Technion \u2013 Israel Institute of Technology, has won the prestigious Water Europe Innovation Award for SMEs. The award was announced in June at the Water Innovation Europe 2021 Conference. Water Europe (WE) is a European technology platform for collaboration between research institutes, companies, and water utilities. The Water Europe platform was initiated by the European Commission in 2004, and now encompasses more than 200 commercial businesses, academic and research bodies, and water supply companies whose collective goal is to build a water-smart economy in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>More than 10% of the world\u2019s population, over 670 million people, presently have no access to clean drinking water, which significantly impacts numerous aspects of their lives, including health, education, and gender equality. H<sub>2<\/sub>O<sub>LL<\/sub>\u2019s Atmospheric Moisture Harvesting (AMH) technology is capable of extracting moisture from the air even in arid and desert regions, and is highly relevant to many of the UN\u2019s Sustainable Development Goals, including the rights of every person for clean water, good health, and well-being, climate action, quality education, and gender equality (in many places in the world, children \u2013 girls in particular \u2013 are required to provide water to the family at the expense of attending classes at school).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8fQRnM4-4W4\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The H<sub>2<\/sub>O<sub>LL<\/sub> technology was developed by Professors David Broday and Eran Friedler from the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering and was patented by the Technion. The development team is headed by Mr. Ilan Katz (M.Sc.) as CTO, Mr. Oded Distel who leads the business development, and Dr. Khaled Gommed from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>The Technion research team built a prototype at the Technion\u2019s Environmental Technologies Yard, which has been producing potable water since the winter of 2019-2020 (i.e. throughout the COVID-19 pandemic) and serves as a proof of concept (POC). <a href=\"https:\/\/us18.campaign-archive.com\/?u=351966085aec46b57d040a430&amp;id=97e7822946\">Award<\/a>-winning company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.H2Oll.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">H<sub>2<\/sub>O<sub>LL<\/sub> <\/a>is en route to becoming a company and to commercializing the technology, with Mr. Ilan Katz as its CEO and Mr. Oded Distel as VP for business development.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/technion.us19.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=db91c2c40c8ee233655a587a5&amp;id=15240f0209\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Subscribe to our newsletter<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H2OLL, an innovative Atmospheric Water Generator (AWG) technology developed at the Technion \u2013 Israel Institute of Technology, has won the prestigious Water Europe Innovation Award for SMEs. 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