But, that's just what SOURCE Zero Mass Water does.

Operating globally, they have already produced 335,351 litres of water through the installation of hydropanels that use the unlimited supply of water vapour in the atmosphere, combined with sunlight to pull water from the air.

Their latest project, officially unveiled to the public today, was the installation of 10 hydropanels at Murrurundi Public School.

James Simons, vice president of business development for Asia Pacific said SOURCE Water currently has over 1000 hydropanels operating across the Asia Pacific including 300 in Australia, with panels operating in 20 countries worldwide.

"It's an off-grid drinking water solution, utilising air and sunlight to condense water, pull water vapour out of the air and produce mineralised drinking water," he said.

Murrurundi gained their attention due to the water quality and scarcity issues faced by the township as a result of the ongoing drought.

The ten panels installed at the local school will produce 1500 litres of water a month -  273,750 litres over its 15 year lifetime.

"Typically for a household if you had four to five people you would have three panels and they would provide 300 litres per month which is more than enough for your drinking water needs," Mr Simons said.

"These ten panels will be enough to supply this school and these kids," Mr Simons continued.

The small-scale operation at Murrurundi Public School serves as a trial for rolling the panels out further in the area, and that's what they plan on doing if they can secure the funding.

There are similar projects in the works at the Muswellbrook Indoor Sports Centre, as well as Elmswood Farm and Gundy Soldiers' Memorial Hall.

"It's a completely scalable, modular solution," Mr Simons added.

"So for a town like Murrurundi, with 1000 people there-abouts, it would be an array of about 400 panels which would cover maybe two or three acres of space.

"It would mean we could create a grid - a micro-grid - completely separate from town water supply, which would be able to supply all the drinking water needs for the whole town." 

SOURCE Water's next goal when they introduce pilot projects into towns is to work with government and private enterprise to secure funding opportunities.

"We are especially looking at drought stricken communities to try and provide this additional resource to traditional infrastructure," Mr Simons said.

"In terms of being able to implement them, we can implement a town water solution in a matter of days.

"If we can get the funding and we can get the approval from council, governments and all the stakeholders we could roll out a town size array of panels and install and have them functioning within a week."

SOURCE Water currently has arrays of hydropanels that service whole communities in Vanuatu and Kenya.

"Water restrictions for whole communities are occurring right across Australia and it's a big part of our mandate to identify where those drought stressed, water stressed communities are and try to provide solutions for them.

"It's not always easy with new technology but we're hoping that projects like this in Murrurundi are showing the scale that we can work at."

The Murrurundi Public School SOURCE Water Project received funding from Sydney and Byron Bay based restaurant Three Blue Ducks, run by Chris Sorrell and Mark LaBrooy who also use the hydropanels at their restaurant.

"The environment and sustainability has always been important to us in our business and us personally so it was a very natural partnership for us to join SOURCE Water," Mr Sorrell said.

"We installed 10 panels on our roof and we harvest water just like this off our roof up in Byron.

"We sell it to customers that come to our restaurant for $5 and that $5 is what we have used to help offset the cost of purchasing these panels we got for the public school."

Chris said they first became aware of the severity of the drought at a fundraising dinner in Byron Bay, when somebody mentioned the Murrurundi community and its tight water restrictions.

"The idea of not having water security for children I think was a real eye opener for both of us," he said.

"So to be able to be involved in this project is really exciting."

Murrurundi Public School Relieving Principal Rebecca Hopkins said she can't thank Three Blue Ducks and Zero Mass Water enough for the wonderful gift.

"The town of Murrurundi has been on Level 6 water restrictions since July last year, with water for Murrurundi homes and businesses now being trucked in daily from Scone," she said.

"The SOURCE water allows our students and community access to fresh drinkable water that has a pleasant taste.

"It will also offset the equivalent of 540 000 single use plastic bottles in its 15 year lifetime which is good news for the environment.

"Our students enjoy the taste and can often be seen filling their water bottles throughout the school day.

"We welcome our parents, friends and community members into our school to fill containers to take home and enjoy."