The machine 'squeezed the air out of the water'

A team of scientists has created a device that can "squeeze out water" that is powered by sunlight alone.

According to the Technology Review, the device is the work of MIT researchers and professor Omar Yaghi's laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB).

New equipment to help "squeeze out air" of the scientists - (Photo: MIT).

The team hopes to perfect this new technology so that it becomes a solution for supplying freshwater to the world's poorest and poorest regions.

The device uses a new material capable of absorbing water vapor from the air to "squeeze" air into water at an unprecedented level of efficiency.

Specifically, 1kg of new material when operating on this device can produce several liters of water per day in the ambient humidity of 20% - the most common moisture in the driest areas in the world.

This technology promises the potential to solve one of the world's greatest challenges.

Last year, a report in Science Advances said about 4 billion people (nearly half of whom live in India and China) are facing "serious water scarcity for at least one month." year".

Accordingly, water shortages are impacting two thirds of the world's population. In line with the increasingly extreme nature of climate change, the scientific community says that water scarcity will increase in the coming years.