Water-From-Air Tech Placed At Bedouin Sustainable Farming Initiative 

Israeli startup H2OLL has launched its first complete system to produce high-quality and affordable water from the air. 

The system was installed at the Wadi Attir initiative in the Negev, a groundbreaking project led by Israel’s Bedouin community to create a model of sustainable farming. 

H2OLL’s technology started as a project by Eran Friedler and David Broday, two professors from the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. They were joined by Dr. Khaled Gommed from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering as they sought to  find ways to provide clean drinking water for everyone. 

The technology was developed into a practical system by the Haifa-based startup under the leadership of its CEO Joab Kirsch, CTO Ilan Katz and VP Business Development Oded Distel.

It enables water extraction from the air even in dry and desert areas, while completely blocking chemical and biological contaminants.  

The system is set to produce 1,000 liters of water per day at the Negev site, using the technology developed by Broday and Friedler. It enables water extraction from the air even in dry and desert areas, while completely blocking chemical and biological contaminants. 

H2OLL has recently also launched a crowdfunding campaign, and has so far raised more than four million shekels. The money will help to fund international marketing efforts, connect the technology to solar energy and develop a system that will produce about 10,000 liters of water per day.