Small Scale Solutions. Growing Trees in Desert with help of Waterboxx from AquaPro.

The AquaPro principle High Tech with the simplicity of a paperclip, in line with mother nature’s example: Water from air without using energy How to leave a better world for our children Pieter Hoff, The Netherlands

Table of contents
The inventor
The AquaPro principle: who needs it?
The AquaPro principle: water from air
The WaterBoxx design
The Easywater design
The figures speak for themselves
The Sahara tests: 4 sleeves
The current 7 world problems
Who cares about the future starts to think and act now
Opportunities for countries with the AquaPro principle
Contact
Thanks for your attention

The inventor
Pieter Hoff.
Agricultural background, flower business
Breeding, producing and exporting of Lilies
Branches in China & South America
25 years travelling and export
Sold company in 2003
Inspiration for invention during travelling because of diminishing ground water levels
Personal objective: Make the World Green

The AquaPro principle: who needs it?
Develop an alternative for irrigation with ground water
Develop a new principle to produce drinking water
Requirements:
easy
cheap
sustainable
2 billion people and 500 million farmers world wide currently have no access to enough water
with micro-credit and the AquaPro technique they will
In this way we leave a better world for children having enough water to wash and drink and have food

The AquaPro principle: water from air
The AquaPro principles:
With the ‘Waterboxx’ a tree is planted on top of the soil, so that the capillary is not destroyed when planting.
In the middle of the ‘Waterboxx’ there is space to put a seed, a plant or a tree.
This plant can develop its roots under the ‘Waterboxx’.
The ‘Waterboxx’ produces water via artificial condensation and rainwater.
It distributes the collected water to the plant on a daily base.
It stimulates the rise of the capillary water to the top of the soil under the ‘Waterboxx’.
It prevents evaporation of the capillary water.
It prevents the development of weeds around the plant.
It prevents grazing of the plants by a certain variety of animals.
It prevents erosion of the soil around the plant and heating of the soil around the plant.
It stimulates a balanced temperature in the root area.
The advantage of planting on the soil means that it can also be used for planting on rocks.
The same principle can be used to produce drinking water too

Application: Fruit / Food / Medicine / Wood / Anti-erosion / Energy / CO2 capture

The WaterBoxx design

The Easywater design

The figures speak for themselves
In the past, planting trees was not possible on eroded land, rocks and deserts
Irrigation is too expensive and the need of energy too high
There’s not enough ground- or river water (and it is partly necessary for the people living in cities)
With the WaterBoxx eternal water: from air
Over 3 times lower costs than with irrigation
Previously useless land changes to valuable land that can be used both as an input and collateral
Previously useless land can be given to famers
No energy needed

Planting trees on rocks in the Sahara May 31, 2008 Daily temperature +50°Celcius

Planting trees on rocks in the Sahara Daily temperature +50°Celcius Result October 1, 2008 Without WaterBoxx prototype: dead

Planting trees on rocks in the Sahara Daily temperature +50°Celcius Result October 1, 2008 With WaterBoxx prototype: alive

Results Sahara tests with University of Oujda Morocco
Make the world green, plant all deserts!
With WaterBoxx Without WaterBoxx Total % Total % 88,2 OK 10,5 OK 11,8 Weak 89,5 Dead

The current 7 world problems
Food crisis
Climate change
Sinking ground water
Rural;-urban migration
Shortage of drinking water
Cutting the last woods on earth
Population growth to 10 billion

Who cares about future starts to think and act now
Trees can solve a part of the 7 problems
Trees create food, industries, energy, work
But they need 40 years to grow
If we want to combat the 7 world problems in 2050 we need to act now
In this way millions of children will have better circumstances than they have now

Opportunities for countries using the AquaPro principle
With the WaterBoxx developing countries can produce fruit, food, medicines, perfumes, wood, energy, combat erosion and capture CO2 with land that is currently hardly used
These products will develop service industries
Economical development helps reduce rural;-urban migration
The WaterBoxx has the big advantage that it can be invested through microfinance: a small farmer cannot finance a well and expensive irrigation. He can however annually buy 10 WaterBoxxes
With 10 WaterBoxxes he can plant 100 trees in 10 years
The WaterBoxx is easy to use, simple to explain, has no moving parts and uses no energy
The AquaPro principle helps solving the water problems and therefore it helps combating each of the 7 world problems partly or as a whole

Opportunities for countries using the AquaPro principle
The Easywater disc can be used during severe draught as a survival instrument to make drinking water or irrigation water to let the vegetables survive
It can be used during monsoons as a rainwater capturing instrument once the normally used water is contaminated
Because of its brilliant flying capacities as a disc it can be used by children playing frisbee and be a lifesaver if necessary

Opportunities for companies selling instruments using the AquaPro principle
The WaterBoxx can be used by farmers, NGO’s and governments for professional use
The WaterBoxx can be used in urban projects like housing, golf courses, etcetera
The WaterBoxx can also be used by consumers to plant trees in their gardens in dry circumstances or for maintenance of the garden of a second house during the time that one is not living there
The EasyWater can be used to solve urgent drinking water problems during periods of draught or monsoons when water is contaminated
The EasyWater can be used as a toy

Contact
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+31-654-340410
or mail at
[email_address]
Make the world green
Frisbee is a registered trademark of Wham-O USA * Lipton is a registered trademark of Unilever-Switzerland

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