Watercone / Aquacone

General information about the global watersituation
20% of the global population (1,2 billion) have no access to clean drinking water because of economical, ecological, geographical or political reasons and the situation worsens permanently.
2,4 billion people have no sanitation or sanitary facilities.
2003 will be the official "Year of freshwater" announced by UNESCO.

Natural Water
Looking at the natural water sources, more than 70% of the earth is covered by water however 97,2% of it is salty seawater. The remaining 2,7% freshwater a fixed in the polar caps and the glacier of the mountains. Only 0,642% is easy accessible water in the rivers and lakes and as ground water.

Idea
The general idea for the Watercone® was to develop a solar powered waterstill for everyone.
It must be cheap to produce and easy to use. No technical instruction or knowledge must be reqired and no maintenance neccessary except little cleaning when needed

Where to use
The Watercone is mainly developed for middle-term supply of fresh water in poor and hot regions with seawater or dirt/brackish water. Furthermore it could be used in regions after natural disaster when electricity and canalisation collapsed. The watercone can also be used as an emergency device on boats to provide fresh water.

Productivity/phsyics
On a sunny average summerday the Watercone® produces 1-1.5 liters of pure water in 24 hours with a used surface area of 0,5 square meter.
2-3 cones are covering a mans dayly need of fresh water.

Patents
International patent pending

Function
The basic principle of the Watercone® is evaporation and condensation of seawater or brackish water.

Design
The design of the Watercone® is purely driven by functionality, production method, cost effectitety and usabitity.
The Watercone® is a transparent polycarbonate coneshape object without bottom. The polycarbonate cone is made out of a thin weiht and material saving vacuum formed foil with a thickness of 0,5-1mm.
Inside the revolving bottom edge is a large gutter to accumulate the downrunning clean waterdrops. The gutter edge ends in a second smaller upide down gutter that prevents the clear water to be contaminated by saltwater when pouring out. On top of the cone there is a bottle neck with a screw closure that prevents the 100% air humidity to escape and loose water.

Sponsors
Currently the project is supported financially by the Hans-Sauer-Stiftung in Munich by paying tooling costs.
The enthusiastic toolmaker Zeltec in Cologne helps to construct and to produce the pilot lot of this humanitarian product.

Advantages, product charecteristics
-space saving stackable
-europallet oprimized size for efficient transport
-easy to clean flat and round surfaces, no gaps or edges
-only simple instruction required to run waterproduction
-100% recyclable separate materials
-trouble-free nontoxic combustible when it`s out of order
-several years lasting resistand ecological polycarbonate (UV radiation, seawater, temperature, shock, scratch)
-ecological purely solar powered device
-floatable construction (water in a collect pan or lentic waters)
-While floation on water the cone is absolutely horizontal so the angle of the cone shell remains same at any point. The waterdrops can flow constantly into the gutter.
-ready to use, no additional setup neccessary
-useable on water or wet ground like beachsand or grass
-self-supporting structure, windresistant
-worldwide known and cheap method of production (vacuum forming)
-intuitive bottle like handling beaucse of the bottle neck with a screw closure. The position on top remains clean while other systems have their mouthpieces at the bottom in the dirt.

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