desalination

What’s stopping desalination from going mainstream?

POLITICO illustration/Photos by iStock, Getty, Food & Water Watch Panic over saltwater intrusion in the Mississippi River threatening drinking water…

1 year ago

Too much salt: water desalination plants harm environment: U.N.

FILE PHOTO: Workers walk outside a desalination plant, south of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 2011. REUTERS/Fahad Shadeed OSLO (Reuters) -…

5 years ago

Case study suggests new approach to urban water supply

If you live in the developed world, safe water is usually just a faucet-turn away. And yet, global warming, drought…

6 years ago

Desalination Produces 50 Percent More Toxic Brine Than Previously Thought

The world’s desalination plants, which use energy intensive processes to remove salt from water, produce enough toxic brine each year…

6 years ago

A permanent solution to California’s water woes — seawater

Workers move a pipe in front of the 2000 pressure vessels that will be used to convert seawater into fresh…

6 years ago