i have seen skyscrapers used for housing people, housing offices heck even housing plants and animals but housing plants that make freash water that a first.
(in order to facilitate water purification, the tower will be made up of
several circular tanks filled with
brackish water
(water that has more salinity than fresh water, but not as much as
seawater), which will be enclosed in spherical greenhouses. Using
tidal
powered pumps, the brackish water will be brought up into the tower
and circulate through the mangrove plants, which have the unique
ability to thrive on brackish water and perspire freshwater. The
freshwater sweat then evaporates and condensates into dew on wall of the
greenhouse and is collected in a freshwater tank. The resulting
freshwater can then be distributed to the fields using gravitational
flow.)
that from inhabitat website on a article done on them the only problem i see with this is that it still a concept
http://www.inhabitat.com/2010/03/08/bubble-shaped-skyscraper-is-a-f...
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