Oasys, who’s technology was developed by the environmental engineering program at Yale University, aspires to provide low cost seawater desalination and water treatment. The patented technology, Engineered Osmosis (EO), aims to produce drinking water at less than half the cost of current desalination methods. This is done by reducing the amount of high-pressures needed (which current methods rely on), reducing electricity and fuel demands by more than 90%. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that 2.4 billion of the world’s 6.8 billion people live in highly water-stressed levels, and it is innovations such as EO that must be funded by government initiatives to help the developing world.
