The United Nations estimates that 2.2 billion people lack safely managed drinking water, and communities from California to ...

This article is part of Running Out, an occasional series about Texas’ water crisis. Read more stories about the threats facing Texas’ water supply here. EL PASO — The wind swept through El Paso one ...

A sheet of aluminum, blasted with laser pulses lasting just quadrillionths of a second, turns pitch-black and begins to do ...

image: MIT researchers have designed a new solar desalination system that takes in saltwater and heats it with natural sunlight. The system flushes out accumulated salt, so replacement parts aren’t ...

Jon Bessette sits atop a trailer housing the electrodialysis desalination system at the Brackish Groundwater National Research Facility (BGNDRF) in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The system is connected to ...

PHOENIX – A desalination startup company hopes to gain Arizona customers as the state prepares for more cuts to its Colorado River water supply. Desalination is the process of taking ocean water and ...

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 ...

Researchers from Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Manufacturing have developed a novel off-grid direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) system that ...

MIT researchers claim to have created a revolutionary solar-powered desalination system powered directly from sunlight without any auxiliary external power or batteries. The invention has 'adapted to ...