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

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 ...

This remarkable desalination device, made from 170,000 recycled plastic bottles, runs on mechanical power from waves as it floats in the ocean, and creates up to 13,000 gallons (53,000 liters) of ...

U.S. Army Sergeant Kornelia Rachwal gives a young Pakistani girl a drink of water on the 19 October 2005 after the Kashmir Earthquake. Desalination is an important tool in disasters. After an attack ...

Cyprus is entering 2026 amid a severe water shortage, with dam levels hovering around 12 per cent of capacity and winter rainfall providing only limited relief.Officials have already warned that ...

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The American West is experiencing its driest period in human history, a megadrought that threatens health, agriculture and entire ways of life. DRIED UP is examining the dire effects of the drought on ...

A version of this story ran in the October 2018 issue. Having tried little else to save its water supply, Corpus Christi is considering an option that no other Texas city has embraced: seawater ...

Less than six months after rejecting a proposal for a major desalination plant in Huntington Beach, the California Coastal Commission on Thursday approved plans for a different, smaller project in ...