Moses West’s story, experience, and ambition all seem larger than life. As a self-described military brat, he was born in Georgia, moved to Germany, and spent most of his childhood in Houston, Texas. He served three years as an Army Ranger, then went to flight school and piloted helicopters including the Chinook. A combat injury sidelined his career but didn’t slow him down. After retiring from the military he circled the world, traveling from Germany to Sweden to Australia and eventually to Hawaii. While in Oahu, a meeting with a next-door neighbor changed his course once again. As it happens, the neighbor had a small machine plugged into the wall that created water, which he says was “absolutely fantastic.” As Moses sat on his neighbor’s sofa and drank glass after glass, he had a revelation. The process seemed so simple yet had enormous potential to be a game-changer. His past home bases of Texas and Australia were in the middle of a drought and experiencing wildfires, while the air all around us is filled with H2O molecules just waiting to be used.
He thought, “If this little machine can do it on this scale, it’s just a mathematical formulation to get it to work on a larger scale. And so it’s a way to mitigate one of the largest crises that face us today.”
Still in his neighbor’s home, he remembered learning about the hydrologic cycle in elementary school, recalling that water is a closed-loop cycle. It moves between the oceans and atmosphere and land while changing between liquid, solid, and gas form. “We still have the same amount of water on the earth that we’ve always had. You borrow it and you give it back,” says Moses. His Atmospheric Water Generator simply borrows the H2O molecules from the air temporarily. “Water is here and it’s abundant and it’s a source that technology can remove and let us use it without any stress on our infrastructure.”
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