THE GUNK from a truck’s tailpipe might not seem very attractive to drink. But a British defence lab may ask parched soldiers of the future to do just that, using a gadget it is developing that harvests water from the exhaust of jeeps, trucks and tanks, then filters it until it is drinkable.
The idea comes from Mel Scott and his team at the defence research company Qinetiq in Gosport, Hampshire. Instead of arranging for thousands of bottles of water to be supplied in areas where the pumping, treatment and supply of water has been disrupted by conflict or drought,…
