A growing global water crisis is forcing scientists to rethink how fresh water is produced. Across the world, billions of ...

Norwegian water technology company Flocean has produced its first drinkable water from an industrial-scale subsea ...

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 ...

Conventional desalination plants, particularly those using reverse osmosis or thermal evaporation, require substantial ...

From a fast-melting snowpack in the Sierra to over-pumped groundwater in the Central Valley and a drought on the Colorado ...

Desalination plants, a major and growing source of freshwater in dry regions, could produce less harmful waste using electricity and new membranes made at the University of Michigan. The membranes ...

On particularly bad, sleepless nights, Sofia finds herself worrying about whether the taps might run dry. “We are, at the end of the day, in a desert,” said the United Arab Emirates resident. Oil and ...

Membrane distillation (MD) is a thermally driven separation technique that exploits a hydrophobic, microporous membrane to transfer water vapour from a heated saline or contaminated feed to a cooler ...

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.