CARLSBAD, Calif. (AP) — Some four miles off the Southern California coast, a company is betting it can solve one of ...
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World’s first underwater desalination plant uses ocean pressure to halve energy use
The world faces a dire freshwater crisis. According to the UN, half of the global population currently faces severe ...
It’s a cruel reality that only about 3% of the world’s water is fresh, and of that, only a fraction is readily available. Yet as the world’s arid regions encounter intensifying droughts, more people ...
Partnership combines Veolia's world-leading water technologies and desalination expertise with SBM's offshore engineering capabilities to deploy innovative freshwater floating production units.
From Cape Town to Tehran to Lima to Phoenix, dozens of cities across the globe have recently experienced water shortages. In the next five years the world’s demand for fresh water could significantly ...
Drought and climate change are impacting water supplies around the world. But desalination — pulling fresh, drinkable water from saltwater— can offer some relief. Desalination technology has existed ...
Chris Stiedemann of Poseidon Water looks over the giant filters that remove microscopic impurities from the seawater. Photo by Chris Jennewein Elon Musk: lend me your ear. Now that you’ve tackled free ...
Just off the coast of Malibu, California, a network of underwater pods is preparing to do something no U.S. desalination system has done before: transform deep-sea ocean water into drinking water ...
Dozens of water-harvesting pods are set to be deployed along the sea floor off the coast of California as the United States ramps up its first subsea desalination project. The effort is expected to ...
What if the answer to the world’s growing water crisis was hidden in the depths of the ocean? For decades, the idea of turning seawater into drinkable freshwater has been plagued by high costs, ...
In an effort to shore up the state’s future water supply, Texas lawmakers have stressed the need to secure new sources and point to desalination as a potential solution to looming shortages. But ...
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