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For more than 30 years, EXHIBITOR magazine has brought you the world’s most prestigious exhibit-design competition, honoring the crème de la crème of trade show exhibits. Continuing that tradition, EXHIBITOR relaunched its World Expo Awards six months ago, and recently announced the winners and honorable mentions.

S.A.W.E.R. won the second place among the exhibitions of 192 nations. The 360-degree projection in the central amphitheater of EXPO Al Wasl Plazza, a project of the United Arab Emirates, took the first place.
https://www.exhibitoronline.com/news/article.asp?ID=22364

Czech Republic brings the desert to life at Expo 2020

The pavilion itself won’t only be an exhibition space, but will itself become a distinctive exhibit. The impressive twelve-metre organic structure growing around the building is exceptional both from an architectural and constructional standpoint – nobody has ever built such a large self-supporting structure from fiberglass capillaries.

Nicknamed ‘spaghetti monster’, the overhead cluster of pipes is a part of an active exhibition presenting the Czech-invented Solar Air Water Earth Resource (S.A.W.E.R) system.

This two-part solar-powered technology extracts water from the desert air, developed by the University Centre of Energy Efficient Buildings  and the  Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Czech Technical University, and treats it with subsurface cultures to cultivate arid soil, the technology for which was developed by the Botanical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

Visitors will experience the autonomous S.A.W.E.R system in person from the moment they arrive at the pavilion, following its pipes to the interior where it leads to ‘The Heart of the Pavilion’ – the first permanent exhibition.

Source: https://gulfnews.com/expo-2020/pavilions/czech-republic-brings-the-desert-to-life-at-expo-2020-1.1621164482359

Solar Air Water Earth Resource (S.A.W.E.R.) – drinking water from desert air

The autonomous unit S.A.W.E.R. generates drinking water in the dry hot climate which can be used for consumption, feeding livestock or for plants irrigation. The system getting water from air and cultivating the desert into fertile garden.

Solar Air Water Earth Resource (S.A.W.E.R.) is composed of two systems, one for extracting water out of the desert air and the other for cultivating the desert into fertile land.

More about S.A.W.E.R.: https://fs.cvut.cz/news/1465-3356/s-a-w-e-r-drinking-water-from-desert-air/ ; https://www.czexpo.com/en/s-a-w-e-r/