It is sad to hear news where in some parts of the globe people cannot even have a glass of water to drink every time they want. While on the other parts of the world, there are floods, or people make artificial rivers and seas for entertainment purpose. Not that we do not need any entertainment, because I like to gamble in one of the tables above that certain river. Entertainment is good for your brain. If I were responsible in creating the next revolutionary technology well these were my imagination.
The idea of transferring water from one place to the other has fascinated mankind from hundreds to thousands of years ago. The ancient Egyptians regarded their Pharaohs as sons of gods because one of the then known as Pharaoh could create irrigation system that enabled farmers to get water easily. But it is not only the ancient Egyptians that needs water transfer. The Chinese Water Works Department has long been conducting research and finally came up with plans to move the Southern water from Yangtze River, to fill up water scarcity of Northern Rivers like Yellow and Hai rivers. The conventional idea is to build huge dams and water ways that are connected to the rivers which of course will cost a lot of money, manpower, and time.
To make story short, I was thinking to create a revolutionary technology plan to help people whose areas suffer from water scarcity. Okay, the idea is this. If in this modern technology, we can send and receive mail through unseen internet connections, then print it through printer, why not with water? Printed mail is a solid object, while water is a liquid one. But both are objects. So what we need to do is we need to change water into some kind of particle using a specific machine. This element needs to be very light and minuscule that we can transfer the water particle to other places. In the place of destination, the other receiver machine will receive the water particle and change it into drinkable water. So the idea is much the same as transportation system used in Star Trek movies. But we transfer water instead of people.
Because water is liquid, we should control the flow when it is transferred to the place of destination. So first we need to create the machine. It is like the computer and internet for emails. We can name it Water Transfer Dispenser. I use an LG freezer dispenser as a sample. The left door dispenser will be used to get fresh water while the right door LCD screen will be used to choose where you want your water to come from. So you will be able to get fresh water from the Amazon, Alaska, or any other places that have the technology installed.
Of course, countries with plenty water supply will have to impose limitations and you may have to subscribe to get your water. But for other poorer countries, the UN can help to impose regulations. For instance, for each gallon sold to other countries, the producing country should give a fifth gallon of free water for poor countries. With this technology, we should see dry places in Middle East grow crops and there will be thousands of new vacancies opened based on this new technology. Is not this nice? These are what I would do if I were responsible for producing the next revolutionary technology.
water is important in our life. nice post.:D
woo.. good [posting and water realy2 important for live
if only your imagination become a reality, that would really help people in Africa…
yes, i agree. it is sad that some people in this world is having too much water that causing them get infected into disease, while the other suffering of lack of water. good post
This is a wonderful idea. It sounds like it could work. If you have the technical mind (which it sounds like you do) to turn this process from an idea into an invention, why not check out grant programs. Small Business Administration’s SBIR grant program comes to min. Check it out. Where there’s a will, there’s always a way. There is a definite need for this technology.
Now water become an important part of our life. we must keep it for our children later.
There is a problem in comparing the internet to a system for water. In your printer analogy, the paper and ink used to make the print is already there, and only the information of how to combine the two is sent in the email. In the case of water, the ingredients (hydrogen and oxygen) would have to be inside the receiver.
Additionally, the email is sent using electrons (on copper wires) or light (on fiber optic cables). Water is made of protons, neutrons, and electrons. Protons and neutrons cannot be sent the same way, and there is no technology for reassembling them into molecules.
There ARE a lot of exciting technologies for making drinkable water. Desalinization takes ocean water and makes it drinkable. Solar thermal plants can make pure water and electricity at the same time! Unfortunately, the idea of a global water network is not feasible. It is very imaginative though! Keep coming up with ideas and do some research, and you may come up with a world-changing idea yet!
If only the scientist have it-is-impossible-things in their mind, there would be no invention at all…