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DRIPS Project presented on June 2012 at PechaKucha EDF Sustainable Design Challenge in London
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4Supported by In Association with
PechaKuchaEDF Sustainable Design Challenge
In Collaboration with
4Kristin B. Lubenow
PROBLEM:There are places on Earth where there’s
not enough rainfall to grow food.
Some places hardly get any water at all.
And some places alternate between bone dry and flooding.
And in some places, the water doesn’t penetrate deep enough and evaporates before it could nourish plants.
Two high school students from San Francisco
decided to find a solution.
Nick and Tim Werby worked with UC Berkeley School of Engineering to design a cost-effective and practical product.
IDEA:Create a simple product that would collect atmospheric water (dew, fog, rain) and transportit below the evaporation layer in the ground.
Solution:• Atmospheric Water Capture
• Easy Maintenance
• Easy to Understand
• Cheap
• Recyclable
• Flexible
Condensation:• Water collects on surfaces colder than the surrounding air
• In desert environment, this water evaporates before reaching plant roots
• Farmer can’t grow enough food due to lack of irrigation even in the presence of atmospheric water
Condense atmospheric water on a surface and transport it deep enough
into the ground to keep the
moisture from evaporating
during the day.
Easy Maintenance
No electricity;No moving parts;No supervision;Simple to make.
Simple to Understand
Stick in the ground next to a plant.
Communicate use with a pictogram.
Cheap & Small
There are many atmospheric
water collection solutions. We focus on the
cheap and the small. We are targeting poor
subsistence farming
populations.
Flexibility and Customization
D.R.I.P.S. Project
Flexible & Customizable
D.R.I.P.S. Project
Extra Food & Little Cost
D.R.I.P.S. Project
Extra Food & Little Cost
D.R.I.P.S. Project
2011 EDF Sustainable Design Challenge Winner
D.R.I.P.S. Project
2012 Challenge: Develop a Working Prototype
Moving from concept to a fully-realized product is
very hard.
Tim and Nick decided to develop an inspirational
prototype.
Using the grant from EDF, the boys worked with artists to develop a DRIPS prototype...
There are MANY different solutions to atmospheric water collection problem.
DRIPSproject.com is a large library of solutions with links to companies that
make various atmospheric water collection systems and to research on how atmospheric water can be used
in agriculture.
4Supported by In Association with
PechaKuchaEDF Sustainable Design Challenge
In Collaboration with