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The water potential is really just the sum of the pressure potential and the solute potential. Obviously, then, lower pressure potential would lower the water potential, and so would lower solute potential.
To lower the solute potential, the moles of the solute would actually have to increase. This probably seems backwards, but the equation for solute potential is
-iCRT (where C is moles/liter, for some reason). Because there's a negative sign, the more moles you have, the less the solute potential is.
Hopefully that helps.
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