A new study reveals how combining biochar with advanced hydrogels can dramatically improve solar-driven water evaporation, offering a promising ...

Turning seawater into freshwater often creates a second crisis: hypersaline brine that is expensive to handle and risky to ...

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 ...

A nanoparticle-based coating developed at the University of California San Diego can convert more than 90 percent of captured ...

A phase-change photothermal foam stores solar heat to sustain water evaporation after sunlight fades, producing fresh water ...

Solar desalination using solar stills presents a sustainable, low-cost method to convert saline or brackish water into potable water by harnessing solar energy. This approach utilises simple ...

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 ...

Solar steam generation and desalination technologies represent a crucial frontier in addressing global freshwater scarcity and environmental sustainability. By harnessing solar energy to generate ...

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 ...

HOUSTON – (May 14, 2025) – Fresh drinking water is a vital yet limited resource that will only grow scarcer over the next few years, according to the World Resources Institute. Desalination, the ...

The proposed brackish water desalination system uses photovoltaic electrodialysis to enable direct-drive desalination at high production rates. It already operated for 6 months on real brackish ...