• Nanofiber membrane 纳米纤维膜
• makes seawater 使得海水
• drinkable in minutes 在几分钟之内变得可以饮用（in a minute … 马上）

• Safe and readily available water 安全并且可以饮用的水
• is important for public health 对保护公众的健康非常重要,
• whether it is used for drinking 不管是指的饮用水,
• domestic use 家庭内日常用水,
• food production 农业,
• or recreational purposes. 或者是休闲产业
• Despite the vast quantity of water on Earth 虽然地球上水的总量很大,
• just 2.5% of it is freshwater 但只有2.5%是淡水,
• and an estimated 785 million people 估计有7.8亿人口
• lack a clean source of drinking water 缺少干净的可饮用水.
• Desalination of seawater 将海水淡化
• could be a vital technology 可能成为一项最关键的技术
• to meet the world’s drinking water needs 来满足世界对可饮用水的需求.

• Engineers工程师
• at the Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) 来自韩国土木工程与建筑技术学院
• have developed 研发了
• co-axial electrospun nanofiber membranes 一种共轴静电纺丝纳米纤维膜
• fabricated by an alternative nano-technology 这种膜是由一种新的纳米科技织成的,
• which is electrospinning 这种技术叫做静电spinning.
• It can prevent wetting issues 它可以阻止膜的润湿现象
• and also improve the long-term stability 提升长期可靠性
• of the membrane distillation process 膜的蒸馏过程中的.