{"id":238800,"date":"2026-06-12T03:23:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T08:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/this-specially-designed-jacket-pulls-drinking-water-from-thin-air"},"modified":"2026-06-12T03:23:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T08:23:28","slug":"this-specially-designed-jacket-pulls-drinking-water-from-thin-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/this-specially-designed-jacket-pulls-drinking-water-from-thin-air","title":{"rendered":"This specially-designed jacket pulls drinking water from thin air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-specially-designed-jacket-pulls-drinking-water-from-thin-air2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Engineers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a jacket that harvests drinking water directly from the air. The technology could benefit anyone who spends a lot of time in areas without easy access to drinking water, from hobbyist hikers, campers and runners to agricultural workers, emergency responders and soldiers. The advance in fabric technology comes alongside a new benchmark for atmospheric water harvesting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWater harvesting from air is usually imagined as a stationary device such as a box, a panel or a large sorbent bed,\u201d said Guihua Yu, chair professor of the Cockrell School of Engineering\u2019s Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering and Texas Materials Institute and one of the leaders of the new research <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.aed9949\" target=\"_blank\">appearing<\/a> in <i>Science Advances<\/i>. \u201cHere, we wanted to rethink the form of the technology. If the fabric itself can collect water from air, it opens a new direction for personal and portable water access.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2022-08-biofilm-capable-long-term-electricity.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">textile<\/a> incorporated into the jacket collects moisture and funnels it to detachable harvesting units. Those units are placed in a foldable collector piece and heated to produce water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a jacket that harvests drinking water directly from the air. The technology could benefit anyone who spends a lot of time in areas without easy access to drinking water, from hobbyist hikers, campers and runners to agricultural workers, emergency responders and soldiers. The advance in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1506,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-food","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238800","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}