The clean water crisis is prevailing across the world, rising concerns especially in the poorer countries. The overpopulated regions with poor economy, where people can’t grab a day’s meal are not expected to afford the cost of filtering and recycling water, making it fit for drinking.
The Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and the Public Utilities Board have come up to their rescue from the crisis. Yes, scientists there, are developing a new material that could help low-cost filtering and recycling of water.
The secret of this quality of the new material lies in its use of ‘nanotechnology’ — the ever-happening and upcoming branch of science.
Thanks to the researchers from NTU and the PUB for engineering this new material using nanotechnology, capable of controlling matter on a scale smaller than 1 micrometre. It is made up of nano-sized crystals.
These small sizes of the crystals help them to capture a large amount of unwanted matter in the water. Thus, this new nano-material-based water purifier promises to prove better than the conventional cleaning filters or membranes.
