Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tim Quinn, left, OceanWell's water policy strategist, watches Mark Golay, the company's director of engineering projects, as he ...

Driven by osmotic pressure, thermodynamic constraints, and system losses, desalination remains an energy-intensive process ...

In this opinion piece, Heriot-Watt University Dubai’s Manjula Nair explores how energy-efficient reverse osmosis can support ...

Scientists have developed a novel technology to further advance water desalination — the process of removing salt from seawater — potentially offering a large-scale solution for an imperiled ...

Water. Without it, the life of a plant, an animal, or a person is inconceivable. Ironically, despite the huge volumes of water on the planet, access to freshwater is becoming increasingly difficult ...

The proposed brackish water desalination system uses photovoltaic electrodialysis to enable direct-drive desalination at high production rates. It already operated for 6 months on real brackish ...

Using zero liquid discharge to increase water recovery from desalination is an emerging method to combat water scarcity, but has its own drawbacks. Climate change is making water scarcer. A promising ...

Half of all people on earth experience severe water scarcity at least one month out of the year, according to the UN. A radical new kind of desalination technology is finally on the cusp of helping to ...

Engineers have found a way to eliminate the fluid flow 'dead zones' that plague the types of electrodes used for battery-based seawater desalination. The new technique uses a physics-based tapered ...

Californians could be drinking water tapped from the Pacific Ocean off Malibu several years from now — that is, if a company's new desalination technology proves viable. OceanWell Co. plans to anchor ...

Californians could soon be drinking water from the Pacific Ocean. A new company is testing deep sea desalination technology that can turn saltwater to drinking water without the harmful effects to the ...