The press office of the Human Capital Development Foundation announced that scientists from the Russian engineering company "Air Spring" have created a unit capable of extracting 1,000 liters of drinking water from the air per day.
The system operates in temperatures ranging from +12 to +60 degrees Celsius. This development has undergone testing in the arid climates of Uzbekistan and India, and is currently entering the pilot marketing phase.
Project owner Dr. Sergei Dorgeev said: “One system produces up to 1,000 liters of water per day, and this amount is sufficient to meet the needs of small settlements, remote military or exploration bases, tourist camps, or small industrial facilities. It can also operate completely independently by relying on solar panels and withstand extreme temperatures. We have not only created a water extraction system, but a life-giving tool in places where providing water was thought to be impossible.”
The development was named "Water in the Desert." Technical tests for extracting water from the atmosphere were conducted in 2024 in the arid climate of Uzbekistan, and then in India in 2025. The project is currently in the pilot marketing phase with a ready-made version of the product.
The system relies on a multi-stage condensation cycle with pre-conditioning of the airflow. Outside air enters the conditioning unit, whose system selects, according to the conditions, a sequential or parallel processing pattern. The airflow is then directed towards the cooling plates, where the water vapor condenses into water.
The used air then passes through a heat exchanger, transferring its coolness to the incoming airflow. According to the developers, this allows energy consumption to be reduced to 0.4–0.7 kWh per liter of water produced.
Among the development's features is a dual-circuit cooling design, which expands the equipment's operating temperature range. Dorgiev explained that the system maintains high efficiency at temperatures between +12 and +60 degrees Celsius, noting that similar foreign models, including Israel's WaterGen, India's MEGHDOOT Magnum+, and China's AtmosWell, operate efficiently at temperatures between +25 and +40 degrees Celsius.
These characteristics allow the application of the technology in arid and semi-arid regions of the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa, particularly in areas where the temperature at night is around +15 degrees Celsius and rises during the day to +60 degrees Celsius, with absolute humidity ranging between 5 and 8 grams per cubic meter.
