Remember the moisture farm Luke Skywalker grew up on? If Luke changes his mind about the whole Jedi thing, it appears he could come back to work on new moisture farms in Saudi Arabia:
Saudi Arabians will soon be able to drink water to their heart's content, thanks to the Water from Air product that will be marketed there by Vigilant (M) Sdn Bhd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the QI Group of Companies.
...[Vigilant manager Krish Kumar] said the product, which works by extracting air from the atmosphere, and condensing it through several filters to produce clean and safe drinking water, is expected to be an immediate hit and chalk up sales of 15% year-on-year.
"Saudi Arabia is a country that has limited water resources and a high evaporation rate. Water from Air is the ideal product that will allow households and offices to have drinking water throughout the day.
"It will also help them reduce their dependence on bottled water. Cost savings from using Water from Air is about 57% as the 15-liter capacity desktop unit can produce one liter of water at only USD0.15 compared to USD0.35 for a liter of bottled water.
"For the 35-liter capacity standup unit, the cost savings is 48% based on a production cost of USD0.18 per liter," he said [press release, QI Group via AgriMarketing.com, 2011.05.31].
Fifteen cents per liter: that's still 193 times what I pay for water from Kingbrook, which charges three dollars per thousand gallons. But a device like this seems a remarkable step toward avoiding the water wars we hear are looming.