Abstract
Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte have joined with industry partners Katadyn Group and Bodacious Design to develop the Wave Actuated, Tethered, Emergency Response, Buoyant Reverse Osmosis System (WATER BROS), forming a team of the same name. Their rugged, low-cost, wave-powered device, which has a unidirectional, rotational wave energy conversion mechanism, is designed to arrive fully assembled for easy deployment and maintenance that can be performed in any wave condition.