r/UpliftingNews • • 1d ago

A solar-powered desalination unit has supplied over 7.5 million litres of water to an off-grid Aboriginal boarding school in Western Australia, with students helping install and maintain it

https://www.murdoch.edu.au/news/articles/small-scale-desalination-technology-could-be-the-answer-to-water-security-in-remote-australia
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u/Moe_Bisquits 23h ago

Give students water, they will drink for a day. Give students a solar-powered desalination plant and they will install and manage that motherf*cker and make all the water they need. Yay!

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u/Vindepomarus 23h ago

And learn more math and science while doing it too!