Science Nation: New Nanotechnology to Produce Sustainable, Clean Water for Developing Nations

Woman loading a jug onto a cart. Caption: If we can lower the cost of the filtration,

The world’s population is projected to increase by 2-3 billion over the next 40 years. Already, more than three quarters of a billion people lack access to clean drinking water and 85 percent live in the driest areas of the planet. Those statistics are inspiring chemist Ben Hsiao and his team at Stony Brook University. With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the team is hard at work designing nanometer-scale water filters that could soon make clean drinking water available and affordable for even the poorest of the poor. Part of the National Science Foundation Series “Science Nation.”

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  • Science Nation: New Nanotechnology to Produce Sustainable, Clean Water for Developing Nations

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