Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pushing seawater through a membrane to separate salt and freshwater seems like a fairly simple way to expand the supply of potable ...

Desalination has long been promoted as humanity's trump card against water scarcity. With oceans covering most of the ...

Gulf states produce 40 percent of the world’s total desalinated water through more than 400 plants.

A research team co-led by a UC Irvine chemistry professor has built a new kind of electrochemical device that strips salt from water without relying on the terminal electrodes found in every ...

The road toward making desalination an effective — sizable and sustainable — part of meeting Texas’ growing demand for water has been winding and bumpy. And so far, it hasn’t led us where we need to ...

The dream of hyper-abundant water can come true, soon. We are told that water scarcity in the arid American West is inevitable and that the great water projects of the past century were the product of ...