TUCSON — Long dependent on wellwater and supplies sent hundreds of miles by canal from the Colorado River, this desert city will soon harvest some of its 12 inches of annual rainfall to help bolster ...
Mechanical engineers Nathan Ortiz, left, and Professor Sameer Rao of the University of Utah describe a device they developed that draws fresh water from the atmosphere. Earth’s atmosphere holds an ...
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 ...
(Nanowerk Spotlight) For over half the global population, accessing clean drinking water remains an enduring challenge. With climate change and development pressures exacerbating water scarcity ...
Where fog is frequent and persistent with favourable conditions, a single collector can produce several hundred litres a day, ...
We live in an era defined by technology. And one of the effects of this is that we are increasingly distant from nature. Our consumerism has often turned a blind eye to environmental consequences. So, ...
Spring is a great time for planting, but those plants you just bought will need water to get established and to survive. This means spring is also the perfect time to think about rain harvesting in ...