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Scientist takes inspiration from natural world to create self-filling water bottle

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Sometimes, nature knows the best way to solve a problem. There’s a beetle that lives in a part of the world where less than .5 inches of rain fall per year. So the beetle draws water from the air, and now a businessman is trying to harness that idea to create, among other things, a self-filling water bottle.

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