Sea level rise means fresh groundwater will increasingly become salty. Yat Li explains how his novel 3D-printed desalination tool can offer a solution. By Rita Aksenfeld, UC Santa Cruz In many areas of the world, including California, the demand for...
Berkeley Lab-led Water Hub supports company in advancing desalination methods By Christina Procopiou, Berkeley Lab Key Takeaways Approximately 40 percent of the U.S. water supply comes from underground aquifers but much of it is too salty for many human uses....
By Claire Griffiths, UCLA States across the Colorado River Basin are squandering a critical opportunity to ease the region’s historic water crisis, according to a new report by UCLA and the Natural Resources Defense Council. The sweeping analysis reveals that...
By Edward Ring, Director of Water and Energy Policy at the California Policy Center On May 22, 2022, the California Coastal Commission voted unanimously to deny final approval for a desalination plant in Huntington Beach. It would have produced 56,000...
Miles away from the ocean, projects are afoot to clean up salty groundwater and use it to grow crops. Some say it’s a costly pipe dream, others say it’s part of the future. By Lela Nargi, Knowable Magazine Ralph Loya...