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Billboards Produce Potable Water From Air in Arid Climates

Written by Mark Stevens on . Posted in Science, Technology

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Remember the water bottle that filled itself from the air using hydrophobic and hydrophilic surfaces?

Now, brilliant minds from the University of Engineering and Technology in Peru have deployed a functional billboard that absorbs water from the humid climate, filters it, and instantly makes it available to the locals for drinking, cooking and dumping on their heads.