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Water from wind
Here is an URL with various water from the air devices, all of them a scosh more complex and expensive then the wind powered ones
There was also that story way back of those andes folks using mist traps in the high humid air to catch water
And if you did the water collecting at high altitude, before you used it, say mountain top down to the valley where the farm action and people water drinking goes on, just run down a pipe and make some electricity using hydropower turbines.
And that's the silver magic bullet to alternative energy and transportation and sustainable living and so on-there is no one perfect way, but we already have a plethora of ways that taken as an aggregate is more than enough to get out of the "thinking about it, need to throw another decade and ten zillion at hydrogen fusion zero point fuel cell reactors research and...yada" stage we have been at for years and years now and get right down to the "OK- the tech is good enough for now, we can make it better as we go along, so let's do it!" stage.
I've used this analogy before and it still fits, if we, the computer using public, had waited until we had multiple core giga hertz machines with gigs of ram and half a terrabyte hard drives , etc, for relatively cheap bucks before we all decided to just go ahead as individuals and "do it", we'd still be forced to go to the big expensive vaccum tube main frame building and log on. It would never of happened. It takes individuals to make society change, individuals with enthusiasms and the "do it" spirit that gets things done. money->mouth. that's it, that's all that really works, that and gettin' yore handz durty....