Team:UC-Santa Cruz
From 2013.igem.org
Water shortages affect half of the world’s population (currently 7 billion persons). In the next 25 years the numbers of people impacted by severe water shortages is expected to increase four fold. Shortage of potable water has been estimated to account for 80-90% of disease and 30% of mortality for humanity. New energy efficient, scalable, low cost methods to desalinate sea water and brackish water are critical to address this basic need. We are developing an efficient sunlight-powered biomachine, for low cost desalinization of brackish water and sea water.
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