Fresh water we can use for drinking or agriculture is only about 3 percent of the global water supply, and nearly 70 percent of that is trapped in glaciers and ice caps. So far, that was enough to ...
This article is part of Running Out, an occasional series about Texas’ water crisis. EL PASO — The wind swept through El Paso one day in March, lifting a fine layer of dust that settled onto ...
Desalination is a way to turn salt water into fresh water. It is immensely expensive. The expansion of one facility in Kuwait recently cost $1.8 billion. In just 2015, the government’s investment in ...
When we think about the circular economy, repairing and recycling products usually springs to mind. But there’s a major element that often gets overlooked: water. As a finite resource that sustains ...
The seawater desalination plant in Texas City would provide fresh drinking water to Harris and Galveston counties and ...
In an effort to shore up the state’s future water supply, Texas lawmakers have stressed the need to secure new sources and point to desalination as a potential solution to looming shortages. But ...
One month after halting the Inner Harbor desalination project, Corpus Christi council will meet in a workshop to discuss ...