Algerian researchers have built a single-stage solar and battery desalination system for brackish water that uses a hybrid spotted hyena optimizer and maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithm to ...

A new deep-sea desalination technology is undergoing testing in Southern California. Water managers hope it will offer an economical and environmentally friendly way of tapping the Pacific Ocean for ...

Panic over saltwater intrusion in the Mississippi River threatening drinking water supplies in major cities and an ongoing drought parching the West have some officials weighing a controversial ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered the State Water Resources Control Board to consider changing its ocean protection standards to help boost the state’s water supplies amid climate change. SACRAMENTO, ...

Chicago is set to break ground on a pipeline that will bring water from the Great Lakes to some suburbs whose groundwater is running dry. Joliet, Illinois, is one of those suburbs. Here & Now's Chris ...

It’s a cruel reality that only about 3% of the world’s water is fresh, and of that, only a fraction is readily available. Yet as the world’s arid regions encounter intensifying droughts, more people ...

As the world grapples with rising water use and climate-fueled drought, countries from the United States to Israel to Australia are building huge desalination plants to bolster their water supplies.

Officials in Corpus Christi, Texas, picked Kiewit Infrastructure South Co. to design and build the city’s planned Inner Harbor Desalination Plant. Local leaders estimate the project’s cost at $757.6 ...

With the rainy season yet to come, water managers are wondering if this will be a wet or dry year. There's really no way to predict it, but the city of Antioch is resting easy. It has just employed a ...