That’s the sound of Jeremy Cho’s atmospheric water harvesting device extracting humidity from the air to make usable water in Da Kine Lab at UNLV. The device, in its smaller state, looks like a box.

For Chileans who live in the Atacama Desert, the Earth's driest desert, getting potable drinking water is a stroke of luck. Drought is a major concern for cities there, which survive on prehistoric ...

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The industry’s moonshot goal is to scale up production to 1 billion cubic meters, or 264 billion gallons, of water every year, according to an ASU researcher. Atmospheric water harvesting is stirring ...