Tim Quinn, left, OceanWell's water policy strategist, watches Mark Golay, the company's director of engineering projects, as he lowers a desalination prototype into Las Virgenes Reservoir in Westlake ...

Water. Without it, the life of a plant, an animal, or a person is inconceivable. Ironically, despite the huge volumes of water on the planet, access to freshwater is becoming increasingly difficult ...

Vital Lyfe, a startup founded by former SpaceX Corp. engineers to make clean drinking water available anywhere on Earth, ...

Discover osmotic energy that runs nonstop, with pilots in France and Japan, helping coastal cities lower grid costs and add ...

The pistachio trees of Coalinga, California, are thirsty. The nearest river is miles away, but beneath their roots lies an ...

Half of all people on earth experience severe water scarcity at least one month out of the year, according to the UN. A radical new kind of desalination technology is finally on the cusp of helping to ...

Facility in Shandong province also produces mineral-rich brine for industrial use, achieving 'one-in, three-out' circular ...

During the past several weeks, much of New Hampshire, including the Portsmouth and Seacoast area, has been under ever-more serious drought conditions. We're likely to come out of it soon with fall and ...

Schematic image, showing the cyclopentane (CP) HBD. Credit: Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology A research team led by Professor Yongwon Seo in the Graduate School of Carbon Neutrality ...

Engineers have found a way to eliminate the fluid flow 'dead zones' that plague the types of electrodes used for battery-based seawater desalination. The new technique uses a physics-based tapered ...

Californians could be drinking water tapped from the Pacific Ocean off Malibu several years from now — that is, if a company's new desalination technology proves viable. OceanWell Co. plans to anchor ...