Millions of people around the world lack access to clean potable water, a problem that is only getting worse with rising temperatures and a growing population. Yet, the atmosphere contains six times ...

A Nobel Prize-winning scientist creates a machine capable of generating up to 1,000 liters of water per day from the air.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A UC Berkeley device uses a MOF and sunlight to harvest drinking water from desert air, even in Death Valley conditions. (CREDIT: ...

Turning dry desert air into drinkable water once sounded like something from a sci-fi movie. Now, it’s becoming reality—thanks to a breakthrough from researchers at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas ...

A small Texas city is preparing to make big waves in the global fight against water scarcity, reported Smart Cities Dive. Hubbard will become the first U.S. city to use a new technology called ...

A serendipitous observation has led to a surprising discovery: a new class of nanostructured materials that can pull water from the air, collect it in pores and release it onto surfaces without the ...

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 ...

MIT researchers have found a way to use the mechanical vibrations of sound waves to shake water molecules free from a storage medium. The breakthrough significantly speeds up the process of harvesting ...

DEATH VALLEY, Calif. — 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 ...

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 ...

The desert doesn’t look like it has anything to give. Then night falls, the air cools, and a quiet trickle of water begins to gather. That is the basic promise behind a new hand-held atmospheric water ...