With California struggling through historic drought, the Coastal Commission on Thursday approved a desalination plant that could turn up to 5 million gallons of seawater a day into drinkable water.

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 ...

The American West is experiencing its driest period in human history, a megadrought that threatens health, agriculture and entire ways of life. DRIED UP is examining the dire effects of the drought on ...

For more than two decades, California’s Orange County has debated whether to build a seaside plant to convert the Pacific Ocean’s salt water into drinking water in hopes of buffering against droughts ...

Backed by President Claudia Sheinbaum, Baja California Governor Marina del Pilar has announced the launch of construction on the Rosarito Desalination Plant. A key component of the 2024–2030 National ...

Robert Bergstrom, CEO of OceanWell, says his company’s desalination pods that had been tested at a freshwater reservoir near Los Angeles are a step closer to going into the ocean. The California-based ...

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) today voted to adopt the Phase 2 Demand and Supply Estimates for the Monterey Peninsula Water Supply Project, which concludes that the region faces a ...

Baja California Governor Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda and the General Director of the National Water Commission (CONAGUA), Efraín Morales López, signed a collaboration agreement to move forward with ...

Californians could be drinking water tapped from the Pacific Ocean off Malibu several years from now — that is, if a company's new desalination technology proves viable. OceanWell Co. plans to anchor ...