Trying to Make Water Out of Thin Air

By: dhahn () in BU Today

Some 300 million to 500 million people in the world have no access to safe water at all, and perhaps [...]2 billion have inadequate access. One group of Boston University College of Engineering students is attempting to come up with an innovative way to address the crisis: creating a water harvester that would pull moisture from the air to provide potable water without great effort or expense.

Tags: College of Engineering, eng, mechanical engineering, senior design project, water harvesting