Children living in a remote, desert-like town in north-western NSW can fill their drink bottles with safe, chilled water sucked out of the air by hydropanels at their school.
A technology that sucks liquid out of the air to produce drinking water is safeguarding health and helping the environment in rural towns.Renewable technology that produces drinking water from the air has changed how an isolated school and its community source water.
The former NSW Liberal government trialled the system at 10 remote schools as part of a program examining remote renewable drinking water technology. "The bore water comes out of the bore extremely hot and then is treated and also cooled down with the cooling tower up at the bore baths," he said."Staff use it, students use it," he said.A collaboration with the company Zip in 2022 saw a chiller added to the system, which increased uptake."If you're not hydrated properly, it leads to fatigue, it can lead to sickness, and that can lead to staff not being at school, students not being at school.
"There's a longer list, more like 200 schools, which when droughts come when water gets more and more scarce, we see the quality of regional and remote towns really suffer first," he said.
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