As droughts worsen and freshwater grows scarce, desalination is expanding rapidly. More than 20,000 plants now convert ...

While a U.S. attack on Iranian desalination plants might not have a big impact on the country’s water supply, the bigger ...

Desalination capacity is expanding worldwide as cities and nations confront worsening freshwater shortages driven by ...

The Mundas came as labourers, brought by the British to do what they and the zamindars would not do themselves — clearing the jungle, building settlement, taming the Sundarbans. Two centuries later, ...

Fresh-water-saturated sediment or bedrock may extend as deep as three or four kilometers below the Great Salt Lake’s basin, a ...

New modeling is deepening understanding of why saltwater intrusion up the Mississippi River has worsened in recent years, ...

Researchers have found a layer of fresh water beneath Utah's Great Salt Lake that reaches up to 2.5 miles deep and could turn ...

The continental collisions that created this narrow Mideast waterway endowed the region with its petrochemical riches—and ...

How does a hypersaline lake end up hiding a deep body of freshwater beneath it? That question is driving a new phase of research at Utah’s Great Salt Lake, where geophysicists and hydrologists are ...