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Researchers Use Sunlight to Produce Clean Safe Drinking Water – Interesting Engineering
Researchers engineered a highly efficient photothermal structure that converts sunlight to heat, producing clean drinking water.
Water. It is essential to all of life, but according to the WWF, some 1.1 billion people worldwide lack access to water, and a total of 2.7 billion find water scarce for at least one month of the year.
In addition, inadequate sanitation, brought on by water shortages, is also a problem for 2.4 billion people making them vulnerable to diseases such as cholera and typhoid fever. What if there was a way to produce clean and safe drinking and bathing water using only sunlight?
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