Water stress and water scarcity have emerged as a global crisis in recent times, prompting the United Nations to declare water as a scarce resource and prioritize clean water as one of its sustainable development goals (SDG – 6).
In this context, sustainable, passive water harvesting technologies are crucial to supplement conventional water systems to meet ever growing water demands.

This symposium will introduce the fundamentals of solar thermal desalination techniques and atmospheric water harvesting techniques, followed by recent advances in such techniques, followed by discussion of unsolved problems and future prospects of sustainable water harvesting and its long term environmental implications.

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