{"id":207646,"date":"2025-03-02T20:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T02:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/scientists-develop-new-system-that-produces-drinking-water-from-thin-air"},"modified":"2025-03-02T20:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T02:11:07","slug":"scientists-develop-new-system-that-produces-drinking-water-from-thin-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/scientists-develop-new-system-that-produces-drinking-water-from-thin-air","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Develop New System That Produces Drinking Water From Thin Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-develop-new-system-that-produces-drinking-water-from-thin-air.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>UT Austin researchers have developed a biodegradable, biomass-based hydrogel that efficiently extracts drinkable water from the air, offering a scalable, sustainable solution for water access in off-grid communities, emergency relief, and agriculture.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Discarded food scraps, stray branches, seashells, and other natural materials serve as key ingredients in a new system developed by researchers at <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/university-of-texas-at-austin\/\">The University of Texas at Austin<\/a> that can extract drinkable water from thin air.<\/p>\n<p>This innovative system, called \u201cmolecularly functionalized biomass hydrogels,\u201d transforms a wide range of natural products into sorbents\u2014materials that absorb liquids. By pairing these sorbents with mild heat, the researchers can extract gallons of drinkable water from the atmosphere, even in arid conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UT Austin researchers have developed a biodegradable, biomass-based hydrogel that efficiently extracts drinkable water from the air, offering a scalable, sustainable solution for water access in off-grid communities, emergency relief, and agriculture. Discarded food scraps, stray branches, seashells, and other natural materials serve as key ingredients in a new system developed by researchers at The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207646","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=207646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}