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Sweeping all 11 categories of Popular Science "Best of What's New-2010" and winning Innovation of the Year and Green Tech Grand Award, the Groasis Waterboxx left in its wake such business giants as Apple’s iPAD, Porsche 918 Spyder hybrid supercar, GE, Panasonic, Intel, Ford and 117 others.

A product that the inventor foresees as a means to help save mankind as the world's population soars, a plant incubator that doesn't need irrigating and which could help make fertile again the 70% of the world's arid and semi-arid lands whose productivity has been hit by deforestation and over farming.

The Waterboxx, the size of a motorcycle tire, has the ability to solve deforestation and hunger while conserving our water resources. It produces and captures water from air through condensation without using energy. Water condenses on the uniquely designed top and is stored to hydrate the seed or sapling planted underneath through a candle-like wick protruding from the bottom of the box. This leaves the roots thirsty and forces a primary root to grow deep to the water table.

Hand watering or irrigation is not needed. After one year or less, the box is easily removed and reused.

In other words, it allows plants to survive and grow in tricky circumstances without
using any electricity or groundwater. The box can be reused for around 10 years, so
you can plant 10 or so plants with it.
For the first time in history, Popular Science chose an agriculture company to take home the top prize. The reason is simple. Mankind faces a growing population (6.5 billion now, 10 billion by 2050), a dwindling water supply, growing desertification, and global warming.

The remarkable feature of the Waterboxx is that now plants can grow and restore clear cut, eroded, over grazed, mined, arid, burned or destroyed lands. The inventors dream is to reforest the 5 billion acres that have been deforested by mankind over the last 2,000 years.The inventor states "The cutting of trees for lumber, animal grazing and mining, etc. has destroyed and eroded an area the size of Canada."

Using the Waterboxx, aspirations is to plant desertified land with food-producing trees, bushes and vegetables. The production of food from an additional 5 billion acres of trees also helps solve the climate problem. The inventor states ‘The Tree solution is simple. If we unbind more CO2 atoms from the air by planting trees, then the climate problem is solved. Forests can breathe in enormous quantities of CO2 and give enormous quantities of oxygen in return. One acre of trees unbinds an average 2 tons of CO2 molecules into harmless C and O atoms. The C atoms are fixed in wood and the O atoms are put in the air. So if we plant 5 billion extra acres of trees producing food, then these trees unbind 10 billion extra tons of CO2. That's more than we pollute."

The Groasis Waterboxx has been planted in drought ridden Kenya, in fire ravaged mountains of France, in strip mining residue and depleted agricultural soils of Spain, and in the sands of Morocco's Sahara desert. It has been tested for three years in the Sahara desert, with convincing results. Trees that were planted during the summer with the Waterboxx survived well, whereas 90% of those that were watered on a daily basis, but planted without it, died.
This year it has been tested in 30 places worldwide.

In the United States, this past June, over 300 Waterboxxes’ were planted with chardonnay vines on three acres at Robert Mondavi Winery. The high and low deserts of Palm Springs have been planted using native species with the Bureau of Land Management and The Wildlands Conservancy. All plantings are successfully flourishing.

The Inventor mentions “We've no other option because we must solve the world's food problem: how to feed your grandchildren in 2050 when the world's population has reached almost 10 billion? The only solution is to bring back the once forested and fertile land. If trees once grew there, they can grow there again:.

IMPORTANT LINKS

Website: www.groasis.com
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/Groasiswaterboxx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3gUmiAsFRo&feature=youtube_gdata