In the United States we take the luxury of clean drinking water for granted. There are many counties that want the essential, clean, vital infrastructure nourishment that we in the United States and many other developed counties take for granted. According to water.org, a website and movement founded by actor Matt Damon, there are seven hundred and eighty-three million people in the world without clean drinking water. Africa is the country with the highest need for clean water, gathering 345 million inhabitants alone. Asia is not far behind and has two hundred million people in need of water. These statistics amount to an even more alarming statistic. 3.4 million people die every year due to contaminated water. This is more than the number of people who die from war every year. A promising solution to this problem is the development of water from air machines. Systems powered by wind turbines would be the most feasible, however the average price range of these systems is $500,000 to $760,000 according to CNN.com This in turn makes these types of air-water systems impractical to implement and maintain in a vast rural spread affected by poverty. The cost would be astronomical as it would require drilling fifteen hundred feet to extract underground water with an expensive pipeline infrastructure and the inability to maintain such a facility due to cultural differences. Arturo Vittori, an Italian architect, who has worked on the design of subways, planes and ships in Europe designed a solution to the unhealthy water epidemic with Africa, and more specifically Ethiopia, in mind. He created what he considered the Warkawater tower. This is because the Ethiopian people use the Warka tree as a gathering and meeting place. However, this tower can be used
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