Mexico City is one of the world´s most famous Megacities with its 28 million inhabitants and therefore water problems are a constant issue in some areas of the city. Luckily creativeness and invention is also a constant thing in Mexico and that´s why a team of researchers and students of the Technological University of Mexico created Pluvia.
What is exactly Pluvia?
Pluvia is a device developed by a team of researchers and students in Mexico City. They did a trial in one of Mexico City´s poorest neighborhoods where both the water availability and quality were lacking. The device basically collects water during the rainy season and gets cleaned up from all acidity and contaminants, then it passes through a filter and goes into a turbine that generates electricity.
What results of all this process? Clean water, free of flavors, odors, colors and all contaminants, with a water that is actually cleaner than the average water supply in most of Mexican cities. With the electricity it generates, some domestic appliances can be feed like LED bulbs, refrigerators or table fans that occupy a maximum of 12 volts.
What does this mean for real estate in Riviera Maya?
Even if currently architecture teams of UNITEC are working to increase Pluvia´s storage capability and power to make it available for more homes; the future of this device seems pretty clear since it could be the beginning of a multiple usage in the environmentally friendly communities of the Riviera Maya real estate to say the least.
I could definitely say that the new efforts on developing methods for water treatment and power generation are going to be embraced by Riviera Maya residents, particularly in Tulum real estate area where at least 50% of the housing projects are being designed and built with green specifications
Ecologically conscious projects like those taking place in Aldea Zamá, are considered as places where environmental impact are taken into much consideration in all the condo projects that are being developed and also in green homes for sale like Yaxiik.
If you are interested in these ecological efforts or want your home in Riviera Maya as green as possible, make sure you
