Portland teen discovers cost-effective way to turn salt water into drinkable fresh water
"The best access for water is the sea, so 70 percent of the planet is covered in water and almost all of that is the ocean, but the problem is that's salt water," said Karamchedu.
Isolating drinkable water from the ocean in a cost effective way is a problem that's stumped scientists for years.
"Scientists looked at desalination, but it's all still inaccessible to places and it would cost too much to implement on a large scale," Karamchedu added.
Karamchedu figured it out, on his own, in a high school lab.
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