Scientists design gel that "pulls buckets of drinking water per day from thin air"

A single kilogram of this gel, made from cellulose and a food additive called konjac gum, can pull 3.4 gallons of drinking water daily from the driest desert air, say Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin.

From New Atlas:

Those two components work together to make a gel film that can absorb water from the air and then release it on demand, without requiring much energy. — Read the rest