Tim Quinn, left, OceanWell's water policy strategist, watches Mark Golay, the company's director of engineering projects, as he lowers a desalination prototype into Las Virgenes Reservoir in Westlake ...

In May 2022, California officials unanimously rejected a plan to build a $1.4 billion desalination plant in Huntington Beach. The plant, the officials said, would produce costly water and possibly ...

It has taken an unprecedented series of multiyear droughts, conversion of thousands of California lawns to water-sparing cacti and other plants and stricter-than-ever water rationing in many parts of ...

CARLSBAD STATE BEACH is a Southern California idyll. Palm trees adorn the cliffs above the sand, and surfers paddle out for the waves. From the beach it is impossible to tell that a huge desalination ...

The team led by Professors Wang Chengyu and Yang Haiyue from Northeast Forestry University proposed a strategy for ...

Lev Schneiderman recently wrote a letter to the Review-Journal in support of desalination. He is missing many facts. Desalination plants aren’t discussed more frequently because they’re not a ...

Arizona shouldn’t count too heavily on desalting seawater as a solution to its water problems, said the chair of a committee that wrote a national report on the use of salt water. In a report released ...

Half of all people on earth experience severe water scarcity at least one month out of the year, according to the UN. A radical new kind of desalination technology is finally on the cusp of helping to ...

SALINAS, Calif. — In a decision that sheds harsh light on the state’s commitment to environmental justice amid growing drought anxiety, the California Coastal Commission has granted conditional ...