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Although it looks like it has just disembarked from a spaceship, the story of the Amphore machine actually began amidst the golden dunes of’s Sahara desert, where Kumulus co-founder Iheb Triki enjoyed many camping trips. Struck by the dew clinging to the tents at dawn, ‘a testament to nature’s resilience in even the harshest environments’, he decided to harness this natural phenomenon.Fog or dew collection is of course an ancient practice, used from South America’s Atacama Desert to Egypt.
‘Each machine produces on average 30 litres of drinking water per day, that is to say the consumption of around 20 humans,’ Triki explained recently to a French publication. ‘It is a light, slightly mineralised water, like that recommended for infants. It was very important to us that people found it to taste good, not just that they were happy to see water appear where, at first glance, there was none.
Not only does it provide an alternative to the use of plastic bottles or sachets, so prevalent on the African continent due to the lack of access to drinking water, but it is also much cheaper to make and to run – only 10 cents per litre – than heavy infrastructure such as desalination plants.
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