A water district best known for supplying the celebrity-studded enclaves of Calabasas and Hidden Hills could soon become famous for a very different reason. The Las Virgenes Municipal Water District ...

Desalination facilities have critics who claim it's too expensive and environmentally destructive, but there are supporters who want to make existing reverse osmosis technology better and many new ...

Researchers at MIT have created a solar-powered device that can make seawater drinkable. The team says the device can remove the salt from seawater for less than the cost of US tap water. This process ...

General manager Mohamed Ali al-Qahtani checks the quality of the ouput at the Ras al-Khair desalination plant — Fayez Nureldine Solar panels soak up blinding noontime rays that help power a water ...

NYU Tandon engineers optimized the Redox Flow Desalination system to increase salt removal rate by 20% and decrease energy demand. The integrated system provides scalable energy storage and addresses ...

With freshwater becoming an ever scarcer resource, desalination of ocean water is increasingly employed to bridge the gap between supply and demand.. However, desalination is energy-intensive, often ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The Texas State Aquarium was packed with folks who flew into town to listen to the city of Corpus Christi's plans for its $700-million desalination plant. "Our hope is to bring ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The effort to obtain a water rights permit for a desalination plant on Harbor Island has hit a roadblock. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers notified the Port of Corpus Christi ...

Fresh water we can use for drinking or agriculture is only about 3 percent of the global water supply, and nearly 70 percent of that is trapped in glaciers and ice caps. So far, that was enough to ...