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EPISODE · Jul 7, 2026

Supplying Safe Drinking Water: Solar-powered nanofilters pump in antibiotics to clean contaminated water

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Using the same devious mechanism that enables some bacteria to shrug off powerful antibiotics, scientists have developed solar-powered nanofilters that remove antibiotics from the water in lakes and rivers twice as efficiently as the best existing technology. Their report appears in ACS’ journal NanoLetters.

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