Sustainable Development Goal 6 from the United Nations aims to provide global access to safe and affordable drinking water. Solar-powered desalination can help achieve this, by using sunlight to ...

Jon Bessette sits atop a trailer housing the electrodialysis desalination system at the Brackish Groundwater National Research Facility (BGNDRF) in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The system is connected to ...

MIT researchers claim to have created a revolutionary solar-powered desalination system powered directly from sunlight without any auxiliary external power or batteries. The invention has 'adapted to ...

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 ...

Powering seawater desalination plants with photovoltaics A German research team has investigated the feasibility of a large-scale PV-powered seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant in Jordan and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thanks to a groundbreaking solar-powered desalination system developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers, more ...

A multidisciplinary research team has developed a solar-powered photothermal-photocatalytic synergistic platform (SPSP) capable of simultaneously producing fresh water from seawater and degrading ...

A new system could make brackish groundwater drinkable at low cost in communities where seawater and grid power are limited. Brackish groundwater is a major potential source of drinking water in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MIT’s desalination device makes seawater drinkable (Getty Images/iStockphoto) Researchers have invented a desalination device that ...

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 ...

Researchers developed a desalination system that is more efficient and less expensive than previous methods. In addition to providing fresh water, the process could be used to treat contaminated ...