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How did a FL hospital get emergency drinking water after Hurricane Milton?

By GovTech.com  
   October 15, 2024

When Hurricane Milton made landfall in Florida on Oct. 9, St. Petersburg's water main lines were ruptured. Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, which has a large NICU, was one of the affected hospitals in the area. Fortunately, Florida had worked with Genesis Systems to put one of the company's atmospheric water generation machines in a nearby storm shelter before Milton arrived. On Oct. 10 after the storm had passed, Genesis' WaterCube 1000 was brought to the hospital to act as a backup water supply. The WaterCube 1000 creates safe water by “form[ing] a handshake with the water in the air” using materials that absorb water like proprietary liquid and solid sorbents. These materials are then heated to extract the water. The machine can produce nearly 2,000 gallons of water in 24 hours.

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