A research group has discovered a new technique for improving the electrodes that convert seawater into potable water using oxygen. Their improved material outperformed commonly used materials, ...

Freshwater may soon flow from the deep sea to drought-stricken coastal cities. Companies are exploring how the intense ...

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

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As climate change intensifies droughts, disrupts rainfall patterns and fuels wildfires, more regions are turning to the sea for drinking water. Desalination, which is the process of removing salt from ...

Some four miles off the Southern California coast, a company is betting it can solve one of desalination’s biggest problems by moving the technology deep below the ocean’s surface. OceanWell’s planned ...

Chris Stiedemann of Poseidon Water looks over the giant filters that remove microscopic impurities from the seawater. Photo by Chris Jennewein Elon Musk: lend me your ear. Now that you’ve tackled free ...

Water desalination plants could replace expensive chemicals with new carbon cloth electrodes that remove boron from seawater, an important step of turning seawater into safe drinking water. Water ...

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 ...

Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan, led by Yusuke Yamauchi and Yusuke Asakura, in collaboration with Xingtao Xu at Zhejiang Ocean University, have discovered a new technique for improving the ...