(Forbes) Jeff Kart - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with an Israeli company called Water-Gen, which has developed a generator that pulls water vapor from the air to harvest drinking water. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said the deal is "to advance atmospheric water generators as a viable technology for dramatically improving access to potable water during shortages or contamination events, like natural disasters," such as last year's hurricanes in Puerto Rico and Texas. Water-Gen says its technology is the most energy-efficient of its kind. It can reportedly generate a gallon of water for about 8 cents.
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