Remote Mexican village uses solar power to purify water

Thursday, October 8, 2015 - 08:30 in Earth & Climate

Deep in the jungles of the Yucatan peninsula, residents of the remote Mexican village of La Mancalona are producing clean drinking water using the power of the sun. For nearly two years now, members of the community, most of whom are subsistence farmers, have operated and maintained a solar-powered water purification system engineered by researchers […]

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