The problem places have with lack of good water; is a lack of money. Not a lack of water.<p>There are way more energy / cost efficient ways to produce water than a dehumidifier.<p>If you want to get into solving clean water; you really should be working on cheap energy.
> pH does not have a MCL (Maximum Contaminant Level) defined in the EPA's National Primary Drinking Water Regulations [...] but does have a [..limit defined in..] non-mandatory guidelines for aesthetics<p>Wait, there's <i>not</i> a pH range limit on <i>drinking water</i> in the U.S.?!
Ok, I really hate to shit all over somebody else's livelihood, but this whole project seems like a total waste of time.<p>A dehumidifier isn't a complicated mechanism. This is not a novel invention. It also isn't going to produce a sustainable amount of drinking water at a price affordable to the people who need it most.<p>The team running this seems to just be a group of friends who have none of the experience actually make a difference.
We've got an Artist/Engineer, and artist, another artist, another Engineer and a product manager who have no meaningful job descriptions (apparently they "do things"), A "Web Engineer", and an advisor whose only task appears to be possession of knowledge of chemistry. It doesn't seem that this team was chosen due to what they could accomplish, but instead because they all pitched in to get an IndieGoGo project going...<p>I'll give them credit for their cause. At least their hearts are, presumably, in the right places, but this little device isn't going to change the world even a little bit. It would win the science fair without a doubt, but it's not much more impressive than that.
> The lower the pH, the more basic the water.<p>It's been a couple of decades since I took chemistry, but I think you've got that backwards.