AquaMagic, Inc., announced today its plans for the 2006 AquaMagic Hurricane Zone Tour. The tour will run along the gulf and east coasts from Texas to Virginia and will travel through 183 cities. The target number of cities is the same as the number of days (183) in the official US hurricane season which goes from the first of June to the end of November each year.

The purpose of the AquaMagic Hurricane Zone Tour is to introduce the company's revolutionary disaster response units that make water from the air, right where its needed. The technology doesn't require any plumbing or a traditional source of water to clean up. The water it produces is pulled from the moisture in the air. According to company representatives, this will eliminate the need for emergency responders to drive or airlift in pallet after pallet of bottled water. Instead, units can be placed where the water is needed and will produce water continuously.

The second reason for the tour is that the company wants to be able to go in as first responders to the disaster area should a hurricane hit during the scheduled tour. The company feels strongly that although the technology saves time and helps better manage the recovery resources on hand in a disaster, the biggest incentive is to help save lives, since dehydration and death can occur as quickly as three to five days.

According to company president Jonathan Wright, the company changed its focus to developing its life-saving technology after watching the devastation and suffering in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami. "We felt we needed to direct our research and development efforts toward using our water generating technology to help communities prepare for and respond to natural disasters," said Wright.

"Last year there were a record 15 named tropical storms that hit the United States. Disasters were so bad world-wide, in fact, that the World Health Organization dubbed 2005 "The Year of Natural Disasters," said Wright. We are probably going to see more of these, so AquaMagic has put together a new and powerful solution to the biggest problem survivors of disasters face: how to get drinking water.

AquaMagic, a water technology company, is headquartered in Ogden, UT and conducts research, development, and manufacturing in Colorado and Wisconsin.