Freshwater scarcity is rapidly becoming one of the defining crises of the twenty-first century, and the numbers are stark. By 2030, global demand for freshwater is projected to exceed supply by 40 ...

A new solar-powered desalination method could produce drinking water from seawater without chemical additives, according to a promising study. With millions of people lacking access to safe drinking ...

Scientists have developed a solar desalination system that turns seawater into drinking water without creating environmentally damaging brine. Special laser-textured metal panels use sunlight to ...

Newswise — Solar-driven interfacial evaporation has emerged as a sustainable approach to desalination because it concentrates solar heat at the water–air interface rather than heating the entire water ...

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 ...

Scientists have developed a solar-powered desalination system that turns seawater into fresh water while removing nearly all of the leftover salt as a solid instead of producing harmful brine. The ...

In a time when AI data centers are using massive amounts of water, adding to a man-made crisis the United Nations calls the "Era of Global Water Bankruptcy," Chinese scientists have created a ...

Forward-looking: At the University of Rochester, a research team is rethinking desalination by approaching it as a materials science challenge as much as a water treatment problem. Instead of relying ...

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 ...

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, ...