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can harness

water from

air through

its unique

engineering

the one that should be removed and
otswana will soon have its water need for clean drinking water, a hospital, changed after every 5 years,” he added.
problems halved if the new a village and community. Since it uses
Binnovation by a Local company photovoltaic panels, when it’s cloudy, The company is egar to venture in to the
Logan Electrical spills to its intended the chances of getting a full capacity.” Kgalagadi and Northern Botswana to
clientele. Logan Electrical a solution bring clean drinking water to the people
based company says that it can harness How does it work ? in those areas as they are facing water
water from air through its unique It pulls water from the air much like an problems.The Hydropanel technology,
engineering technology that has been air conditioner, only using less energy which is said to be sponsored by the Bill
developed in the United States. .The installed panels that generate water and Melinda Gates foundation has seen
from air have a 12 month guarantee(
“Our aim is to bring clean drinking water and a 3 year warranty which is optional) the parent company providing water in
to the country since Botswana is a dry while the lifespan of the Hydropanel is many parts of the world including the
country. Water is one of the challenges pegged at between 12 and 15 years. very known harsh and arid places and
that the country has so here we come deserts.
with a solution. We would like to make “After installation we will constantly The installation of the water producing
an impact at places like schools that monitor the panels and this can be done plants does not call for any intervention
have no water because our product is from the comfort of our office because >>27
infrastructure free .” it’s monitored in
real time. Each
According to Otsile J. Seretse, the Hydropanel is
company’s Chief Executive Officer, the connected to a
water will be generated by a technique MASH network
that works the same way solar works which enables
but instead of generating electricity 24hr monitoring of
the hydropanel would generate clean each panels water
drinking water. production, water
consumed by client,
Each panel has a tank that holds 30 litres water stored in
of water whel.“The amount of water resivour , quality
varies with the humidity and panels still of water produced,
produce water at humidity of less than and to know if any
10%. One individual panel produces 5 part of the panel
liters of water per day on average and needs to undergo
according to the needs from customer maintance or part
arrays of panels can be strategically replacement.The
installed to meet a schools mineral pack is

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