Self-cleaning desalination system Researchers at the University of Rochester have developed a solar-powered desalination device featuring laser-etched superwicking black metal (right). Unlike existing ...

A growing global water crisis is forcing scientists to rethink how fresh water is produced. Across the world, billions of ...

Researchers developed laser-etched solar panels that produce fresh water from seawater without chemical treatment or brine discharge. The system was successfully tested using water from the Pacific, ...

Solar desalination is gaining attention as a cleaner way to turn seawater into fresh water without creating the toxic brine linked to traditional water purification systems. Unlike older desalination ...

The United Nations estimates that 2.2 billion people lack safely managed drinking water, and communities from California to the Middle East rely on desalination plants to convert ocean water to fresh ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new solar-powered desalination method could produce drinking water from seawater without chemical additives, according to a ...