El Paso, TEXAS (KVIA) -- A University of El Paso undergraduate student developed a new technique that converts 90% of salt, or brine, water to fresh water. Tayia Oddonetto was inspired by her ...

What if the solution to two of humanity’s most urgent crises, freshwater scarcity and rising energy demands, was hiding in plain sight? Imagine a world where the same technology that powers cities ...

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 ...

Tayia Oddonetto (right), a doctoral student at The University of Texas at El Paso, and doctoral advisor Ivonne Santiago, Ph.D., (left) work in the Center for Inland Desalination Systems laboratory.