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Latest Water Harvester Pulls More H2O Out of Desert Air

During field tests over three days in California’s Mojave Desert, an updated version of a water harvester developed by the Lab’s Omar Yaghi produced 0.7 liters per kilogram of absorber per day — nearly three cups of clean, pure H2O. That’s 10 times better than the previous version of the harvester. https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/08/27/water-harvester-makes-it-easy-to-quench-your-thirst-in-the-desert/?utm_source=Berkeleyan&utm_campaign=82418957cb-berkeleyan&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_99ee3800d7-82418957cb-388726225