In Fiction
There are many films and books talking about this very useful technique. There are some:
In Yann Martel's novel Life of Pi, the main character, Piscine Molitor Patel (Pi), survives on a life boat in the Pacific with a Bengal tiger by using twelve solar stills to extract fresh water from saline ocean water.
In the 2002 horror film 28 Days Later about a "zombie apocalypse" in Britain, Frank tries to use this technique after seeing it on television, but he is unable to use it properly.
Read more about this topic: Solar Still
Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development.”
—Thomas M. Disch (b. 1940)