Dr Michael Mirilashvili
Owner and President, Watergen
It is estimated that most people do not have access to basic water services around the world. As the water crisis deepens, new rising technologies are determined to help find an urgent solution.
Considering the global water crisis, Watergen is an extremely important and innovative development. Its unique technological design and electrical efficiency make it a globally and practically scalable solution to tackle water scarcity. Based on GENius patented heat-exchanger, it creates mineralised water without requiring piping infrastructure under a variety of climate conditions.
Creating safe drinking water from air
Dr Mirilashvili, an Israeli philanthropist and Watergen’s President, is a passionate humanitarian at heart.
Dr Mirilashvili believes in helping humanity and making the world a better place for the next generation through committing to diverse humanitarian and social initiatives. This ethos comes from the profound education given and behaviour modelled by his parents, grandparents and the teachings of the Jewish religion.
He first came across the ‘state of the art’ atmospheric water from air technology, which creates safe and healthy drinking water from air, in 2014. The potential of this technology was hugely understated. It was originally intended to reduce power consumption of household white good appliances. It has since saved ‘tens of thousands of lives’ in many countries worldwide. Time means human life, Mirilashvilly is making every effort to make Watergen more accessible for all. He invests a lot of money in order to improve the efficiency of the technology and reduce the price, so everyone will be able to afford this.
Making visions a reality
In attempts to change the discovering company’s focus to ‘air-to-water’ production, he was told ‘…it was just a dream’. But now, the company’s vision is becoming a reality. “We can provide four litres of water with just 1KW and are on course to reduce energy consumption by 90% still by 2024.”
It’s healthy, clean and accessible water which can be made from air in any environment; city centres, workplaces, hospitals, universities, disaster zones, and on-the-move.
The water continues through a multi-stage network of filters, during which chemical and biological filtration and mineralisation occurs. The water – in line with WHO and EPA standards – is continually circulated in a built-in reservoir via UV lamp to keep it fresh.
Renewable drinking water source across sectors
“It’s healthy, clean and accessible water which can be made from air in any environment; city centres, workplaces, hospitals, universities, disaster zones, and on-the-move. God helped me to achieve more goals than I initially planned,” he says.
The potential global impact of the award-winning Watergen’s AWG (atmospheric water generators) is difficult to overstate according to Dr Mirilashvili. Modest home units such as ‘GENNY’ create up to 30L of water-from-air a day. The larger units create hundreds to thousands of litres of water day and are already installed across sectors worldwide, providing solutions to water scarcity on five continents: hospitals in Gaza, schools in Costa Rica and whole communities in Uzbekistan.
The generators create water-from-air utilising any electricity source, off grid or through renewable energy sources and produce water in just 20% humidity. All water, at Watergen’s HQ in Israel, comes exclusively from machines placed on the roof of the building.
A sense of duty
Dr Mirilashvili is deeply committed to his humanitarian values in business. “I see my leadership in Watergen as a huge business opportunity, but more importantly as an opportunity to solve a global problem that threatens the whole world and humanity,” he explains. In this way, his mission to provide clean water to people without the fear of infection or disease is a deep moral and religious duty.
