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A research team at Soochow University in China created a portable solar‑powered device that turns turbid, saline, oily and highly acidic water into drinking water. The prototype generates 1.64 liters of clean water in eight hours, using an evaporation surface of only 30.72 cm². It operates via an electrothermal evaporation process: an electrically heated element warms the contaminated water, causing it to evaporate, then the vapor is condensed into potable water while salts and other pollutants stay behind. This compact system demonstrates a potential approach for on‑site water purification using solar energy.

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