As the world grapples with rising water use and climate-fueled drought, countries from the United States to Israel to Australia are building huge desalination plants to bolster their water supplies.

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 ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Recent attacks in the Middle East on desalination plants, facilities that remove salt ...

Arizona shouldn’t count too heavily on desalting seawater as a solution to its water problems, said the chair of a committee that wrote a national report on the use of salt water. In a report released ...

New solar desalination technology turns seawater into drinking water without toxic brine, improving clean water access and ...

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 ...

It has taken an unprecedented series of multiyear droughts, conversion of thousands of California lawns to water-sparing cacti and other plants and stricter-than-ever water rationing in many parts of ...

Lev Schneiderman recently wrote a letter to the Review-Journal in support of desalination. He is missing many facts. Desalination plants aren’t discussed more frequently because they’re not a ...

As the most water-scarce region on the planet, the Middle East is particularly reliant on desalination technology. Maxim Petrichuk/Shutterstock Clean freshwater is critical for sustaining human life.

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 ...

For a world covered in oceans, getting a drink of water on Planet Earth can be surprisingly tricky. Fresh water is hard to come by even on our water world, so much so that most sources are better ...

Using zero liquid discharge to increase water recovery from desalination is an emerging method to combat water scarcity, but is expensive, energy-intensive and comes with environmental risks.