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Atmospheric water harvester. Never heard this phrase before? Get ready. It might be your new job title.
As the automation and robotics revolution grows closer each passing day, futurists and innovation experts are thinking about future jobs. As inefficient industries and jobs get dissolved or absorbed by automation, many new future jobs will appear. Jobs like…you guessed it… atmospheric water harvester.
Atmospheric water harvesting happens all the time in the natural world. Plants, animals and insects have evolved very clever ways to collect minute amounts of condensed water over large surface areas. However, humans are just now beginning to think seriously about this as a viable resource for fresh water.
I recently stayed at a remote Safari style camp in Western Australia called Sal Salis. This small beach resort is hidden just within the dunes of Australia’s Cape Range National Park and less than 100 feet from Ningaloo Reef.
During the day, Sal Salis can become extremely hot and dry. However, just like any other desert region, at night the temperature drops and the air can become quite moist.
During the day, Sal Salis can become extremely hot and dry. However, just like any other desert region, at night the temperature drops and the air can become quite moist.
Each morning, as I stepped out of my tent, I found several kangaroos licking the thin layer of fresh morning dew from the wooden boardwalk outside. It had been over a year since rain had fallen at Sal Salis, and yet these ingenious creatures had discovered a way to get the fresh water they needed to survive. This made me consider the future of water and how we could harvest it from the surrounding atmosphere.
Consider this, only 2% of the world’s water is fresh. As climate change begins to shift weather patterns, we will need solutions to the inevitable water shortages that will arise in the near future. Could this become a huge industry? Absolutly. We could see small atmospheric water harvesting family businesses, hydroponic farms in desert regions and water startups in the developing world.
Anyone concerned about automation should relax. The future will be filled with amazing jobs. Just not the ones you expect.
For more ideas on future jobs take a look at 162 Future Jobs by futurist Thomas Frey.
85% of the world population lives in the driest half of the planet.
783 million people do not have access to clean water and almost 2.5 billion do not have access to adequate sanitation.
6 to 8 million people die annually from the consequences of disasters and water-related diseases.
“Water for irrigation and food production constitutes one of the greatest pressures on freshwater resources. Agriculture accounts for around 70 percent of global freshwater withdrawals, even up to 90 percent in some fast-growing economies.” UN WATER
FUTURE INNOVATIONS
“Agua de Niebla de Canarias S.L. is a spanish company dedicated to the development and implamentation of systems to collect water from the mist.
After more than 10 years of scientific and professional experience in this area, Agua de Niebla de Canarias S.L. was established. We have patented three-dimensional collectors NRP 3.0 (UM 200801154) with the purpose of contributing to the development and improvement of systems able to obtain quality water without energy.”
VENA is a patented low-cost, low-energy solution for the developing world’s critical need for drinking water. A bio-mimetic design modeled after the cactus, it extracts water from air by transferring cool, below –ground temperatures to an elevated network of copper alloy filaments, around which latent air-borne water condenses and is collected. VENA is the only large-scale water condenser today that does not run on electricity. The assembly is free of moving, complex mechanical parts and polluting coolants and requires only the energy embodied in the materials and installation.
Feature Image Thomas Bresson Flicker CC
I will be speaking about atmospheric water harvesting and many more emerging technologies at the World Future Society conference in San Francisco July 24th-26th Get your tickets HERE
About the author
Gray Scott is founder and editorial director of SERIOUS WONDER.com. He is a futurist philosopher, speaker, writer and artist. Gray is an active professional member of The World Futurist Society.
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