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 ...

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 process of removing salt from ...

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-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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The United Nations estimates that 2.2 billion people lack safely managed drinking water, and communities from California to the Middle East rely on desalination plants to convert ocean water to fresh ...

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, ...