MIT engineers and collaborators developed a solar-powered device that avoids salt-clogging issues of other designs.

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    8 months ago

    This system uses a variant of distillation to desalination the water. This means that a good part of the filtration and purification process required to make most fresh water potable would no longer be necessary, so it could be cheaper than regular tap water, especially in places where the starting water just isn’t that great to begin with. It also is solar powered and looks like it could be pretty scalable, so it may be a viable option.