{"id":23054,"date":"2016-03-03T05:48:31","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T13:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/cheap-simple-technique-turns-seawater-into-drinking-water%e2%80%8b"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:07:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:07:57","slug":"cheap-simple-technique-turns-seawater-into-drinking-water%e2%80%8b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/cheap-simple-technique-turns-seawater-into-drinking-water%e2%80%8b","title":{"rendered":"Cheap, simple technique turns seawater into drinking water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cheap-simple-technique-turns-seawater-into-drinking-watere2808b.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the<a href=\"http:\/\/alexu.edu.eg\/index.php\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\"> University of Alexandria<\/a> have developed a cheaper, simpler and potentially cleaner way to turn seawater into drinking water than conventional methods.<\/p>\n<p>This could have a huge impact on rural areas of the Middle East and North Africa, where access to clean water is a pressing issue if social stability and economic development is to improve.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, desalinating seawater is the only viable way to provide water to growing populations, and large desalination plants are now a fact of life in Egypt and other Middle Eastern countries.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/new-desalination-method-egypt\/39941\/\">http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/new-desalination-method-egypt\/39941\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the University of Alexandria have developed a cheaper, simpler and potentially cleaner way to turn seawater into drinking water than conventional methods. This could have a huge impact on rural areas of the Middle East and North Africa, where access to clean water is a pressing issue if social stability and economic development [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23054","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=23054"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68158,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23054\/revisions\/68158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}