The water is extracted from the air through the use of "moisture vaporators." These devices utilize ionized fields and cooling rods in order to create condensation of whatever vapor is contained in the surrounding air, and can draw water from air containing as little as one-point-three percent humidity. Tatooine's average is five-point-fout, yielding and adequate water output year- round.
The living areas of moisture farms are underground, providing relief from the intense heat above. Tunnels connect an intricate array of living rooms, bedrooms, garages, and storerooms, as well as kitchen, dining and personal areas. Domed entry/exit points and circular wellshafts 10 to 20 meters across provide access to the suface above.
Several moistrue farm clusters, or communities, dot the landscape south and north of the Judland wastes. These farmers rely upon each other heavily for many things, creating a strong family bond between farms. Equipment is shared, as are emergency rations and medical supplies. Farmers on Tatooine seldom buy new machinery, for seldom does pristine equipment find its way to the planet. Most of the droids, pump fittings, power comverters and vaporator parts the farmers need are vought either in town at used equipment lots, or at home, via monthly Jawa sandcrawler visits. Even though going into town invoves transporting newly-bought goods across vast areas of desert, often a hardship, many farmers prefer to make the trip rather than deal with the Jawas. Equipment bought at established lots is usually guaranteed to some extent and has a past-use history, while the Jawa's goods are generally pot-luck and often stolen.
Since Tatooine has few, if any, roadways, most travel is done in landspeeders. These one, two or four passenger vehicles utilize compact repulsor coils and aer turbine engines to travel at high speeds over the roxky, sandy surface of the planet. The speeders never touch the surface, riding instead upon an anti-grav cushion of air. Most moisture farms own several landspeeders, and use them primarily for inspection tours of their vaporator arrays.
