Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Water scarcity is a global crisis, affecting millions of people around the world. Researchers at Dalhousie University have ...

Jon Bessette sits atop a trailer housing the electrodialysis desalination system at the Brackish Groundwater National Research Facility (BGNDRF) in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The system is connected to ...

MIT researchers claim to have created a revolutionary solar-powered desalination system powered directly from sunlight without any auxiliary external power or batteries. The invention has 'adapted to ...

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 ...

Researchers from Qatar's Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) have proposed a novel PV-powered, multipurpose system for agriculture in desert environments. The standalone system includes water ...

Faced with the world's impending freshwater scarcity, researchers turned to solar steam generators, which are emerging as a promising device for seawater desalination. The team sought design ...

Desalination has held out hope for many coastal communities facing water scarcity. But the promise has not materialized because of cost and a lack of reliable electricity. Even the prospect of ...

The researchers also found that desalination and water conveyance from Aqaba to Amman, operated following the photovoltaics power profile, cost approximately 2.5$/m3 at 46% water production ...

Chicago is set to break ground on a pipeline that will bring water from the Great Lakes to some suburbs whose groundwater is running dry. Joliet, Illinois, is one of those suburbs. Here & Now's Chris ...