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Partnering May, 2021
SunToWater and Pegmatis Bring Clean Drinking Water Around the World
By Amy Brandt, Co-Founder and Chairman, SunToWater
world. SunToWater was founded with the mission to make water- to-air technology more sustain- able and much more accessible to families. The company has developed
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an atmospheric water generator that helps to pull moisture from the air, creating fresh, clean drinking water. By focusing on water created from the air, the company hopes to provide unlim- ited access to water for human use and consumption. Also, creating water right
where it is needed cuts down on plastic waste, transportation costs, environmental impacts,
ven today, water contami- nation and availability is a problem in much of the
municipal infrastructure costs, and avoids the risk of contamina- tion of underground water sup- plies.
Building the Generator The technology behind Sun-
ToWater’s atmospheric genera- tors collects moisture from the air with a patented desiccant, runs the water through multiple filters, and adds back minerals that are needed, and finally pass- es through a UV light. The sys- tem ensures that the water ex- ceeds the World Health Organi- zation’s water purification stan- dards.
Capable of producing water
in humidity as low as 10 percent, SunToWater’s generators can
create drinking water in climates that range from the Sahara Desert to Singapore. To create the generator,
SunToWater worked with Peg- matis, a specialist in product de- sign and development, based in Canada. According to Jay Lopez, chief marketing officer of Sun- ToWater, Pegmatis was involved from the earliest stages of the generator, from concept to pro- duction, with continuous support in manufacturing and regulatory compliance. Pegmatis was a nat- ural fit, because it has a team that is capable of designing and delivering a complex product like this all under one roof. Today, Pegmatis is a valu-
able partner of SunToWater. Under the direction of SunToWa- ter, Pegmatis acts as another trusted arm of the company in developing its water generator technology, intellectual property, manufacturing capacity, and reg- ulatory compliance. Pegmatis was explicitly tasked with the end-to-end design effort by act- ing as the engineering extension of SunToWater. The companies worked in a
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seamless fashion to develop the system requirements for the water generator, in alignment with marketing needs and neces- sary regulatory compliance stan- dards. Leveraging the experi- enced Pegmatis team, it handled the technical aspects of the de- velopment effort from research and characterization of operating principles, system architecture, development, design, validation, supply chain establishment, and support into manufacturing.
System Complexity The atmospheric water gen-
erator is complex and required the development of sophisticated algorithms to optimize its effi- ciency and output. Daily atmos- pheric moisture cycles vary around the world and must be used to extract water from the air. The machine basically fig-
ures out the best time during an atmospheric moisture cycle to ex- tract water from the air directly
with a desiccant trap. Then, when conditions are right, the system pulls the water from the trap and turns all the moisture into distilled water. When the water is ready for consumption, the machine cleans, filters and re-mineralizes the water.
SunToWater’s
generators can provide clean drinking water in extraordinarily dry environments with humidity as low as 10 percent.
The result is crisp, fresh
drinking water, without expo- sure to any municipal water lines, chemicals or toxins. Over a dozen patents have been issued, with many more pending, all aimed at guaranteeing that the water is secure, safe and sustain- able.
The project was challenging
from the start, requiring the fu- sion of scientific principles into a viable commercial-grade device. SunToWater’s entire system, from airflow design and control algorithms to software security, required a very diverse skillset, which Pegmatis supplied with- out any further outsourcing. Pegmatis’ leadership has cre-
ated a very strong culture with a team that is highly engaged, mo- tivated and aligned around the customer’s needs. “Pegmatis has partnered with us on several ini- tiatives, and their experience has been essential to our ability to de- liver a world-class atmospheric water generator,” Lopez says. “Ul- timately, they delivered a func- tional device that reliably ex- tracts water from the air, which is currently transitioning into man- ufacturing. We firmly believe that Pegmatis delivers exceptional value.”
Contact: Pegmatis, 835 Har-
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