Alphabet wants your help to draw drinking water from the air

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If there’s one thing to take from Denis Villeneuve’s excellent Dune reboot, it's how important water is when you don’t have an abundance of it. Most of us take this precious resource for granted. But hundreds of millions of people struggle to source clean drinking water every day. Google parent company Alphabet might help solve that problem with a moonshot project that has made a lot of progress in recent years. The company’s X division developed a device that can turn air into clean water at the low cost of just 10 cents per liter.

However, that’s ten times more expensive than Alphabet’s goals for the atmospheric water harvester project. As a result, the company is open-sourcing the entire project, allowing anyone to work on the project and improve it.

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