AUSTIN (KXAN) — University of Texas at Austin researchers have developed a jacket that pulls drinking water directly from the air, a technology they said could help hikers, farm workers and emergency responders stay hydrated in harsh conditions.
According to UT Austin, testing showed the jacket produced between 400 and 900 milliliters of drinking water per day, depending on humidity levels.
“We designed these water harvesting jackets by engineering these very special textile fabrics,” said Professor Guihua Yu with the Texas Materials Institute at UT Austin.
The researchers published their work in the month’s new issue of Science Advances…