- Awarded four-year, $14.3 million project through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Atmospheric Water Extraction (AWE) program
- Device would provide troops in the battlefield with ready source of potable water, while significantly reducing the cost and logistics of transporting water
- Solution could be a future gamechanger in addressing water scarcity
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Giulio Boccaletti: The Next Agriculture Revolution — More Crop Per Drop
As farmers once again rise to the challenge of overcoming resource scarcity with the help of water-conservation technologies, other industries should take note. Part of a series exploring what can be achieved on the energy and the environmental front this decade.
Sun-Powered Desalination for Villages in India
Off-grid Indian communities with salty groundwater could get potable water through a proposed solar technique.
Around the world, there is more salty groundwater than fresh, drinkable groundwater. For example, 60 percent of India is underlain by salty water — and much of that area is not served by an electric grid that could run conventional reverse-osmosis desalination plants.
Better Water Through Science—Open Innovation’s Hunt for Freshwater
Helping to accelerate the hunt for those breakthroughs is a new $200,000 incentive in the form of an open innovation challenge.