As freshwater shortages worsen around the world, desalination—turning seawater into drinkable water—is becoming increasingly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New solutions to the ancient problem of maintaining a fresh water supply is discussed in a special issue of the Inderscience publication International Journal of Nuclear Desalination. With predictions ...