How World Water Day Inspires Us To Combat The Global Water Crisis
World Water Day, celebrated annually on March 22nd, was founded in 1992, but it feels just as relevant in today’s global water crisis. The U.N. founded this day to call attention to the importance of freshwater access and push for sustainable regulations on, and management of, freshwater around the world. The day sees U.N. member states inform the public about freshwater through documentaries, seminars, panels, and conferences about conserving water, purifying it, and distributing it to populations in need.
Those who need water the most struggle the most to access it
On each World Water Day, U.N. water and sanitation group UN-Water chooses a theme relevant to an ongoing or upcoming challenge. This year’s theme, Water For All, expresses a simple sentiment always key to the movement for global freshwater access. The theme focuses on the people most urgently affected by the crisis.
The global water crisis directly correlates to the increased size of worldwide refugee populations. At a refugee camp in Jordan, where 33,000 Syrians (half of whom are children) have fled, there is no immediate access to clean drinking water. Clean water is transported there from far away, by dozens of huge trucks or pumped from one of Jordan’s most overused groundwater sources.
Women face a similar burden from the global water crisis. In many countries most affected by the global water crisis, women bear the familial responsibility of acquiring clean water. Doing so often requires hours of walking and waiting on lines, not to mention paying lots of money for water access. The average amount of time women around the world spend on any given day getting water for their families is a whopping 200 million hours.
World Water Day’s stories of how women, refugees, and other disadvantaged populations suffer as a result of the global water crisis remind us that a truly innovative solution is needed to supply clean water to the world’s population. In the face of global warming and other immense challenges to the global freshwater supply, how can humanity truly ensure that all people have easy, regular access to clean water? We believe the solution lies in an atmospheric water generation (AWG) factory.
How Oxydus AWG factory brings water to the world
At Oxydus, we aim to produce water solely via methods that universally produce clean water in quantities large enough to effectively address the global water crisis. Our AWG factory achieves exactly this goal. Here’s how we do it.
Oxydus AWG factory removes water contaminants during every step. Our factory includes a state-of-the-art, multi-part filtration system that separates all possible contaminating substances and microorganisms. We use methods such as TCR carbon purification, reverse osmosis purifiers, ultraviolet light exposure, and pre-carbon and post-carbon filtration to ensure that no contaminants of any sort get through.
Oxydus AWG factory produces vast volumes of water. Our factory makes 20,000 bottles of clean water daily, and we always use 100% biodegradable bottles for water storage and distribution. We ship these bottles directly to the populations most in need of clean water, and the biodegradable plastic eliminates the environmental damage of bottled water.
Oxydus AWG factory meets local and regional authorities’ mineral content guidelines. Regional water authorities establish levels of certain minerals that all potable water is required to contain. In our AWG factory, we add these minerals in exactly proper levels to meet these guidelines -- and no other solutions do so.
Oxydus AWG factory works anywhere, anytime. Many AWG machines can’t operate efficiently enough to address the global water crisis because outdoor temperature and humidity routinely change. In our factory, we control the humidity and temperature inside so the AWG can reliably supply water on a daily basis.
The solution to the global water crisis lies outside the box
World leaders can meet the U.N. goal of achieving consistent, easy freshwater access for all people by 2030 if we continue to pursue solutions outside the box. That’s why we’re reaching out via Wefunder to take our factory from a revolutionary idea to a game-changing reality. We’re not waiting for a miracle to save us from this crisis -- we’re doing it ourselves. Click here to visit the Oxydus Wefunder page and learn how you can contribute to a permanent infrastructure that could help to provide clean water for all.