(Nanowerk Spotlight) Freshwater could become the oil of the 21st century – scarce, expensive and fought over. While over 70 per cent of the Earth's surface is covered by water, most of it is unusable ...

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have built a portable seawater desalination system for the production of drinkable water in remote locations, without connection to the ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis, Radical Innovations in Reverse Osmosis Seawater Desalination, finds that the increase in freshwater demand for human consumption and ...

Fig. 1. California’s extensive seacoast plus offshore islands offer thousands of miles of opportunity to build safe, resilient water supplies through seawater reverse osmosis desalination. Source | ...

MIT researchers have developed a portable desalination unit, weighing less than 10 kilograms, that can remove particles and salts to generate drinking water. The suitcase-sized device, which requires ...

Scientists have found a way to make smaller portable desalination machines, which could be ``immensely'' useful in countries with scarce water resources, or for decontaminating wells in ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Making fresh water out of seawater usually requires huge amounts of energy. The most widespread process for desalination is called reverse osmosis, which works by flowing ...

Following natural disasters such as the Haiti earthquake or Hurricane Katrina potable water is often in high demand and short supply. In both of those instances, the disaster zones were near the sea, ...

U.S. Army equipment officials are asking the commercial market to gin up a new, soldier-carried water purifier that can even make seawater drinkable. "The objective of this research is to develop a ...

New 60 MLD SWRO plant will strengthen IDE's footprint in India and solve for water scarcity challenges in the region ...

Technology convergence provides immense landscape of opportunities for reverse osmosis seawater desalination market participants, says Frost & Sullivan SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 14, 2021 /CNW/ -- ...