Desalination plants convert seawater into fresh drinking water by removing salt and other minerals. The most widely used ...

Three companies are leveraging modern technology to reshape the future of commercial desalination, making the process cleaner, smarter, and more cost-effective, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The petrostates of the Gulf are famed for their vast oil and gas resources, but their populations and prosperity have also been built on another commodity: water.

For decades, desalination has been pitched as the ultimate solution to water scarcity. With oceans covering more than seventy ...

Fresh water we can use for drinking or agriculture is only about 3 percent of the global water supply, and nearly 70 percent of that is trapped in glaciers and ice caps. So far, that was enough to ...

Researchers at MIT have created a solar-powered device that can make seawater drinkable. The team says the device can remove the salt from seawater for less than the cost of US tap water. This process ...

A research team co-led by a UC Irvine chemistry professor has built a new kind of electrochemical device that strips salt ...

Sunvapor Inc. and Southeast New Mexico College (SENMC) have started joint operations of the country's first solar ...

The military targeting of desalination plants poses a huge risk to water security in the water-scarce Gulf region.

The Gulf countries produce roughly 40 percent of the world’s desalinated water, operating more than 400 desalination plants ...

Recent attacks in the Middle East on desalination plants, facilities that remove salt from seawater, raise the potential for ...