For decades, desalination has been pitched as the ultimate solution to water scarcity. With oceans covering more than seventy ...

The Gulf countries produce roughly 40 percent of the world’s desalinated water, operating more than 400 desalination plants along their coasts. The threshold the United Nations has set for absolute ...

Destroying the facilities is a violation of international law that could cause a humanitarian crisis in the most water-scare region on Earth. Powering the plants with electricity from fossil fuels ...

Last week I introduced the idea of horizontal escalation: when a crisis or war spreads geographically. That has continued. America’s and Israel’s war in Iran now stretches from Cyprus in the west, ...

Hits on Bahrain and Iran plants raise alarm about attacks on civilian infrastructure ...

A fully biomass hydrogel made from coffee grounds and seaweed polymer turns black when wet, capturing 94% of sunlight to ...

Desalination is often seen as an inevitable answer to Middle East water scarcity. But as capacity scales, the bigger question is no longer whether the region can produce enough water — it is whether ...

What if the key to solving the world’s growing water crisis lies not on land but deep beneath the ocean’s surface? With millions of people lacking access to clean water and traditional desalination ...

ABSTRACT: Seawater evaporation is the predominant method for global salt production, supplying over 300 million tonnes of sodium chloride annually. This review systematically examines foundational ...