Watergen

More than 1 million plastic bottles are purchased every single minute, and the vast majority of them is not being recycled.  Our water-from-air technology is therefore a perfect solution to the extensive use of plastic bottles for drinking water consumption.  It eliminates the need for plastic water bottles and reduces plastic waste and the planet’s carbon footprint.

Our solution is specially relevant for the majority of the areas within Latin America and the Caribbean due to the existing temperatures and high humidity which lead to higher water generation.

More than 1 million plastic bottles are purchased every single minute, and the vast majority of them is not being recycled.  Our water-from-air technology is therefore a perfect solution to the extensive use of plastic bottles for drinking water consumption.  It eliminates the need for plastic water bottles and reduces plastic waste and the planet’s carbon footprint.

Our solution is specially relevant for the majority of the areas within Latin America and the Caribbean due to the existing temperatures and high humidity which lead to higher water generation.  

The use of plastic bottles and of 5 gallon jars is well extended within Latin America and the Caribbean region.  Our plug-and-drink solution requires no infrastructure other than electricity and can be installed easily everywhere.  It complies with all required World Health Organization (WHO), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and ASSE standards.  Therefore, while providing everyone access to fresh and clean water, we are also eliminating the use of billions of plastic bottles and the pollution caused by transporting them all over the continent.

Our units are a reliable source of safe, fresh and clean drinking water requiring no infrastructure other than electricity.  This plug-and-drink solution is designed to meet the needs of various descentralized applications such as rural villages, off-grid settlements, manufacturing facilities, hospitals, schools, commercial and residential buildings, office compounds  and more, where there is no access to clean drinking water or the current water sources are contaminated.  Our units are also a mobile solution to be implemented after an emergency incident or natural disasters, providing drinking water of the highest quality. They can be installed also at  sustainable green neighborhoods or at any home/office instead of consuming bottled water.

As our units can be installed everywhere and anytime, there is no more need to transport and storing poluting water bottles, therefore we not only provide safe, fresh and clean water from air for people everywhere, but also eliminate the use of plastic bottles.

To put it simple, we will replace the water plastic bottles that are widely consumed within Latin America and the Caribbean.  

By 2040, two thirds of the world will face drinking shortages, and many populations already struggle with access to clean water.  We have come up with a game-changing solution that uses humidity in the air to create clean and fresh drinking water.

Our innovative technology taps into the atmosphere -an unlimited available resource- to provide drinking water to people everywhere, from the most remote rural village communities to commercial compounds to private homes.

Our water generators come in a range of sizes to suit various applications such as smart cities, rural villages, schools, hospitals, residential and business buildings and more.  They all produce the safest, cleanest and freshest-tasting drinking water, improving the quality of life, saving the lives of potentially hundreds of millions of people among Latin America and the Caribbean, and replacing the use of billions of plastic bottles.

With unique patented deign and non-conductive structure, GENius is the world's most energy-efficient heat exchanger module of its kind.  It produces up to five times more water per kilowatt than any other technology on the market.  

A highly scalable solution, GENius can be configured to any size, to support a wide range of applications from the central water supply in a town or village, to clean water for homes and offices, depending on the specific water needs.

Developed by a team of experts spanning several different fields, Watergen’s technology packs multiple innovations, including the patented GENius, advanced air filtration and water treatment technologies and unique control algorithm which allows operation at a large range of climate conditions, including seasonal and day and night changes.

• The GENius, which is the engine and core technology of Watergen’s solutions, energy-efficient module for generating water out of the air (efficiency-cost ratio), making Watergen’s technology efficient and affordable atmospheric water generating solution.
• The combination of strong air filtration and unique GENius structure, facilitates the generation of almost pure H2O. An integrated water purification system removes potentially harmful and unwanted chemicals, substances and microorganism. In addition, a mineralization filter adds required minerals and controls the acidity of the water, thus ensuring its safety and improving its taste.

• The company offers a range of Atmospheric Water Generators (AWG) for various applications; the home-office scale GENNY can produce up to 27 liters of water per day, the medium-scale GEN-M that produces up to 800 liters of water per day and the industrial, large-scale generators that can make as many as 5,000 liters of water per day. Watergen’s AWGs are installed in dozens of countries around the globe.

• Our water generators provide a low cost, plentiful and renewable source of fresh drinking water. Watergen’s solution is a game changer that will improve health and save the lives of millions of people, that suffer from poor water sanitation or have no accessibility to safe drinking water. 

• Watergen’s technology is ideal for decentralized applications being independent of piping, it can be used in: Cities, villages, commercial centers, schools, hospitals, offices, residential buildings and private homes. This is possible as a result of the flexibility and simplicity of creating modules of any size required for the different applications.

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We provide dirnking water to people with no or poor access to safe, fresh and clean water, replacing the use of water plastic bottles.  This creates a huge and inmediate environmental impact.

It creates an economic and social impact because by giving access to safe, fresh and clean water to new populations, it will affect the level of diseases, affecting the economies of the families, the education level of the children, poverty levels, etc.

We need to convince people to make a shift in their consumption habits and to prefer using our units instead of purchasing expensive and polutant water plastic bottles.

Our solution is not only environmentally friendly but produces premium water quality at lower costs. 

As our solution requires an initial capital expenditure, there is a financing barrier to be solved, and of course a cultural barrier (shifting the use of plastic bottles to water generation machines).

We plan to work together with local distributors approaching local and/or regional financing institutions to create financing schemes to suit different types of population.

We have started to deliver demo units of our GEN-M unit to local distributors in order to make demonstrations to potential clients.

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Founded in 2009, Watergen has devoted its innovative technology towards solving the world’s water crisis under the leadership of its president, Dr. Michael Mirilashvili. Watergen provides a game-changing water-from-air solution based on its proprietary patented GENius technology that uses humidity in the air to create clean and fresh drinking water to people everywhere. 

In addition to Watergen’s patented technology, experienced executive team and international recognition, Watergen has already supplied products to distributors and organizations from the public and private sectors. We manufacture our Water generators in USA Hungary and Israel.

• Watergen’s multi-disciplinary development team includes water industry veterans, BSI Security Factor, applied materials, Intel, IDF and more. Our R&D team includes chemists and physicians, as well as engineers and computer science experts.
•  Watergen works closely with the university of Tel Aviv to make sure it is up-to-date with the academic world.
• Watergen has registered patents in several countries: USA, China, Korea and Europe. Also awaiting confirmation from South Africa, India, Brazil and Israel.
• Watergen has gained international recognition and won several awards, including: “Technology innovation leadership of the year”, by Frost & Sullivan and “World’s 50 most innovative companies”, by Fast Company.
  

I hope to obtain access to financing projects with local governments/municipalities with the assistance of IDB Group.  

Moreover, participating in the Rethink Plastics Challenge will increase our media coverage and the public contiousness on the benefits of our products and the impact they can make.

IDB, World Bank, UN and any other multilateral organization that can facilitate the penetration of our solution into Latin America and Caribean countries