The idea of turning the air around us into drinking water is a marvel on its own. And grabbing a sustainable amount of it from low-humidity environments has long been closer to science fiction than reality.
As a megadrought stresses the water supply throughout the Southwest, revolutionary research out of UNLV is answering this problem with a groundbreaking technology that pulls large amounts of water from the air in low humidity.
The research, “High-yield atmospheric water capture via bioinspired material segregation,” was published Oct. 22 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…