Portable device gathers rain for clean drinking water
New Israeli-made device captures and filters rainwater for drinking, cooking and bathing in off-the-grid communities
The same problem can happen as a result of collapsed infrastructure following a natural disaster like a hurricane or earthquake. It was the latter that drove home the dire message for Eyal Yassky, cofounder and CEO of Hilico. The social-minded startup developed a simple and inexpensive rain harvesting device for off-grid communities. Yassky had been traveling the world as a professional photographer, documenting local cultures with an emphasis on sustainability. In 2016, he was in Ecuador taking pictures of a unique chocolate-making operation (“There are only 47 of this type of cacao trees left in the world,” he says) when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit. Yassky had picked up some disaster-relief skills during his service in the IDF. He volunteered to help and before he knew it, he was globe-trotting with a different hat – volunteer mission commander for organizations like IsraAID – which he balanced with his ongoing photography gigs. -- More...
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