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Those results aren't nearly as good as a traditional reverse osmosis filter, and the system is far more complex and difficult to upkeep.

I wouldn't expect a high-school student to make something better. What's important for the project is to be able to test and document an experiment. I do expect a journalist to understand that performing well at a high-school science doesn't mean it's been scientifically evaluated, but maybe I'm just suffering from the Gell-Mann amnesia effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#%22Gell-Mann_...

This reminds me of the time a bunch of journalists thought a 13-year-old student had revolutionized solar panels, when he just misunderstood the relationship between voltage, current, and power: https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-13-year-olds-solar-power-b...