Michelle Peters, technical and compliance manager for Poseidon Water, walks through the reverse osmosis building at the Claude "Bud" Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant in Carlsbad. (Allen J. Schaben / ...

Clean freshwater is critical for sustaining human life. However, 1.1 billion people lack access to it worldwide. Desalination represents an increasingly popular way of addressing this. Desalination is ...

NEWARK, Calif. (KGO) -- As more communities impose water use restrictions because of the drought, the California Coastal Commission is likely to vote on a controversial proposal later this year that ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. As the climate warms, many of Earth’s arid regions will get even ...

Sean Bothwell can understand why people think desalination is a silver bullet. When he was a kid living in California’s Orange County, the ocean was always close by. It didn’t make sense to him that ...

San Luis Obispo County will study whether desalination might be a way to augment local water resources here. Wikipedia This month, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced that San Luis Obispo County ...

Desalination is being explored as a way to solve the shortages of drinking water that plague much of the world, but it has a few issues to iron out. A new design for a solar-powered desalination ...

A dock at the upper reaches of Lopez Lake near Arroyo Grande is about to be left high and dry as only a trickle of water flows into the lake due to drought. Many south San Luis Obispo County towns ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. California and the rest of the American West are facing the worst ...