How To Build A Machine In Your Own Garage That Pulls Water Out Of The Air Around Your Home

Most of us never give a thought to where our water comes from. You turn the tap, it runs, and every few months a bill arrives.

Then a long dry summer comes along. Your water supplier brings in watering restrictions, the garden turns brown, and the bill keeps creeping up anyway.

That is usually when people start asking a question they never needed to ask before. What would we do if the water stopped?

The answer starts with something you have almost certainly seen on a cold glass of water.

There is water in the air around your house right now

Air always carries some water. You can't see it, because it floats around as invisible moisture, but you have watched it turn back into water many times.

Take a cold drink out of the fridge on a warm afternoon, and drops form on the outside of the glass within a minute. Those drops came out of the air, because the air touching the cold glass cooled down and couldn't hold all of its water any more.

You have seen the same thing happen in at least one of these places:

1. A cold glass on a warm day.The outside of the glass gets wet even though nothing spilled.
2. An air conditioner.Many of them drip water outside the house all summer long. That water was pulled out of the room's air.
3. A dehumidifier.It takes water out of the air on purpose, and anyone who owns one knows how quickly its tank fills on a damp day.

So you have watched water come out of the air many times already, and a water-from-air unit simply makes your cold glass trick happen again and again, with the drops caught and kept instead of left to run away.

A man who wanted to stay anonymous put the whole build into a guide

The guide is called the Water Freedom System. It walks you through building your own home water-from-air unit, one step at a time.

The author writes under a pen name so he can stay anonymous. The video presentation about his guide tells the story of a farmer who found his own answer to drought, and it explains how the system works.

It also says the design is based on technology the military already uses in countries including Israel, India, the U.K. and the U.S.

Warm, humid air holds the most water, so a home with muggy summers has the most water in the air to collect. That's worth knowing before you choose where your unit goes.

Why practical people like building their own

A ready-made water-from-air machine can cost a great deal of money. When you build your own, you understand every part of it, and you decide where it goes, whether that's the garage, the shed or a covered spot outside the back door.

The instructions come in writing and on video. You can read a step, watch it being done, and then do it yourself at the workbench.

It makes a good project to share, especially with someone beside you reading out the next step while you work.

Everything that comes with the guide

It's a good fit for your home if any of these are true

• You live somewhere that gets watering bans or long dry summers.
• Your water bill keeps going up. The presentation says the system can reduce your utility bills.
• You keep food and supplies stored for emergencies, and you'd like water covered too.
• You enjoy a practical project and like knowing how the things in your home work.

If a back-up water source of your own sounds like something you'd like before the next dry summer, the video is the place to start.