1. Sustainability Problem: In the next few decades, approximately 9 billion people will live in this planet, concentrating in urban areas. The current growth rate of food production won’t be enough to feed the mouths of everyone. Hence, a sustainable local food production solution will be in demand. Mimicking the way nature works, NexLoop created a water collection system to support urban sustainable agriculture.
2. The AquaWeb can help urban local food producers collect, filter, store and distribute atmospheric moisture with a modular, all-in-one water sourcing and management system. Other features are as follows:
   • Harnesses freely available rain and fog
   • Distribute water using passive strategies to urban farms
   • Resilient to disturbances
   • Design and inspiration from cribellate orb weaver spider, drought-tolerant plants, and Jersey cow mushroom

Sources:

Nature-inspired water collection system wins $100,000 Ray of Hope Prize® – Biomimicry Institute

https://biomimicry.org/roh2017winner/

NexLoop | Home

http://www.nexloop.us/

3. Stakeholders:
   • Citizens around the world
   • Urban farms
   • Agriculture industry
   • Building contractors and architects
   • Groceries and supermarkets
4. Next steps:
   • Do a feasibility study and engage with stakeholders to improve relations
   • Reach an agreement on costs and economic outlook
   • Initiate pilot-scale project through government funding

By: Timothy Wiranata

UNI: tw2618

Comment on The benefits of waste-to-energy technologies:

“A very interesting technology! However, I am curious on what will be done after the methane is captured. There will still be the liquid waste water right? Will it be used for other applications?”