Dr. Etan Bar, CEO of EWA Technologies Ltd., holds Ph.D. environmental biotechnology. Dr. E. Bar served as the head of the environmental engineering department of the Faculty of Engineering Sciences, and is lecturing at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Dr. E. Bar provides special consultancy for environmental regulation.

A history of innovation and humanitarian effort

The first prototype was developed in 1997 by Etan Bar in cooperation with the World Bank; the venture attempted to provide a solution to the severe water shortage of the Palestinian population in Gaza (the Suitcase model), as well as in West Africa. But the product consumed too much energy and was not economically adapted.
 
The next milestone was the EWA-I - the first model to use the dry desiccant technology - at about the same time as the Asian Tsunami (2004). There were attempts to use it in the disaster areas. Some units were donated to India, but the organization was not suitable to cope with such projects. 
EWA-III combines highly efficient energy conservation with desiccation technology, enabling for the first time sustainable and economical extraction of water from the air – and that while using renewable resources.