This new sustainable lamp uses water to generate light

You can also use it to recharge phones, batteries, and anything else with a USB charging port. It’s built entirely of recyclable and resistant materials too, so you can sustainably dispose of it should you no longer have need of a WaterLight in the future.

It’s hoped that innovations such as these will provide electricity to remote communities.

Speaking on the design, Mojica notes that ‘840 million people worldwide do not have access to electricity’, citing it as a major motivation to create an easy-to-use solution.

To that end, he adds that the project was constructed specifically for the Wayuu community in Colombia. Mojica wanted to ‘reach any home that needs light but has no access to electricity, so that people can continue chores [such as] fishing or studying’.

The WaterLight is meant to be more efficient and reliable than solar energy, supplying immediate power rather than taking time to convert. There’s no need to rely on weather, either, as you don’t need a constant source of sunlight.

While the lamp is not yet widely available, there are plans to mass-produce a version that can be given to all electricity deprived areas. We’ll have to wait and see when those eventually materialise.

In the meantime, why not check out these Power-Blox batteries that could be giving clean energy to rural areas by 2030.