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 ...

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 ...

CARLSBAD STATE BEACH is a Southern California idyll. Palm trees adorn the cliffs above the sand, and surfers paddle out for the waves. From the beach it is impossible to tell that a huge desalination ...

In May 2022, California officials unanimously rejected a plan to build a $1.4 billion desalination plant in Huntington Beach. The plant, the officials said, would produce costly water and possibly ...

A worker walks through the Claude “Bud” Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant in Carlsbad, CA. [Photo: Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times/Getty Images] BY Kiran Tota-Maharaj Clean freshwater is critical ...

More than 30 people, during a heated public hearing Thursday, weighed in on a proposed marine desalination facility that, if permitted by the state, would discharge 38.5 million gallons of treated ...

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 ...

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 ...

Water scarcity is a growing problem around the world. Desalination of seawater is an established method to produce drinkable water but comes with huge energy costs. For the first time, researchers use ...

SALINAS, Calif. — In a decision that sheds harsh light on the state’s commitment to environmental justice amid growing drought anxiety, the California Coastal Commission has granted conditional ...

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 ...