The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) has been researching an innovative new approach to atmospheric water harvesting with improved water collection rates in arid environments. "There's a lot of ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Only 30% of all freshwater on the planet is not locked up in ice caps or glaciers (not for much longer, though). Of that, some 20% is in areas too remote for humans to access and ...

The arid desert landscape of Death Valley is not the obvious place to find water. Yet it’s here, in one of the planet’s hottest and driest places, that Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers ...

SINGAPORE, Dec. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The world is on the brink of a freshwater crisis. Estimations indicate that by 2025, half of the world's population may reside in areas facing water scarcity.

Atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) technologies represent a transformative approach to mitigating global water scarcity by extracting water vapour from ambient air. Recent advances have focused on the ...

Researchers have developed a promising new solar-powered atmospheric water harvesting technology that could help provide enough drinking water for people to survive in difficult, dryland areas: They ...

Water scarcity is a huge global issue. More than 2 billion people lack access to safe drinking water—a situation set to worsen due to climate change, which fuels longer and more severe droughts. As ...

The 50/50 Joint Venture, Named AirJoule, LLC, Will Exclusively Manufacture and Supply Air Conditioning and Atmospheric Water Harvesting Products in the Americas, Africa, and Australia AirJoule Will ...

A group of scientists from China’s Yunnan Normal University and Yunnan Provincial University has developed a PV-powered rapid-cycling sorption-based atmospheric water harvesting (SAWH) system. “To ...

Earth’s atmosphere holds six times more fresh water than all its rivers combined. So, is it possible to harvest that water in areas where people have no other fresh water source? Purdue University ...