Researchers create a harvesting system that can extract clean drinking water from air

A shortage of food supply sure is scary, but nothing is more troubling and alarming than the prospect of losing precious life-sustaining water. Now a group of scientists have developed a device that can extract clean drinking water right from the air. And not only is it possible in a general sense, but that water can reportedly be extracted from even the most arid places on Earth, thanks to this device.

The study, published recently in the journal Nature Communications, featured a research team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who worked on a new device based on an initial concept they proposed last year. The earlier study, published in Science, garnered a great deal of attention and criticism alike, according to Evelyn Wang, the Gail E. Kendall Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and senior author of both studies.

“All of the questions that were raised from last time were explicitly demonstrated in this paper. We’ve validated those points,” said Wang.