{"id":111373,"date":"2020-08-15T06:25:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T13:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/scientists-create-a-material-that-makes-salty-water-safe-to-drink-in-minutes"},"modified":"2020-08-16T01:38:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T08:38:54","slug":"scientists-create-a-material-that-makes-salty-water-safe-to-drink-in-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/scientists-create-a-material-that-makes-salty-water-safe-to-drink-in-minutes","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Create a Material That Makes Salty Water Safe to Drink in Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-create-a-material-that-makes-salty-water-safe-to-drink-in-minutes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Technology that can convert salty seawater or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brackish_water\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">brackish water<\/a> into safe, clean drinking water has the potential to transform millions of lives across the globe, which is why so many scientists are busy working on projects to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-tiny-device-can-clean-your-drinking-water-in-minutes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">do just that<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a new innovation developed by scientists in Australia could be the most promising one yet, with researchers using <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metal%E2%80%93organic_framework\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">metal-organic framework<\/a> compounds (or MOFs) together with sunlight to purify water in just half an hour, using a process that\u2019s more efficient than existing techniques.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s cheap, it\u2019s stable, it\u2019s reusable, and it produces water that meets the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/what-does-the-world-health-organisation-do\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"World Health Organisation\">World Health Organisation<\/a> (WHO) standards for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Desalination\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">desalination<\/a>. Around 139.5 litres (nearly 37 gallons) of clean water can be produced per day from a kilogram (2.2 pounds) of MOF material, based on early testing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology that can convert salty seawater or brackish water into safe, clean drinking water has the potential to transform millions of lives across the globe, which is why so many scientists are busy working on projects to do just that. Now, a new innovation developed by scientists in Australia could be the most promising one [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111394,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111373\/revisions\/111394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}