Getting water from air, possible thanks to Enrique Veiga | Video

Carrión de los Céspedes (Spain), Aug 14 (EFE).- (Camera: Fermin Cabanillas) Enrique Veiga arrived in Seville in 1965, a young engineer from the other side of Spain setting out to work not only for his employer, but for society at large.

Now at 82 years of age, Veiga might have achieved just that, having engineered a machine capable of creating water from the air, as if from nothing at all, that has made its way across the world to guarantee water supply in Lebanon, Iran, and China.

FOOTAGE OF THE MACHINE.

SOUNDBITES OF ENRIQUE VEIGA.

Translation:

I think it was in 1992, there was a serious drought here in Spain, which caused great concern. And we kept seeing defrost in the freezers and thought "why don't we create a machine that can use the water from the defrost?"

We've made a reliable machine, capable of producing the water we need, so we thought of giving it away to a village in need, and we made a machine for 1,200 litres.

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Date: 14/08/2021 12:00 (UTC)
Credit: EFE
Source: EFE
Topic: Science and technology
Type: Rough cut
Duration: 182 seconds
Reference: 7001097489
Relevance: Normal