New tech turns seawater into drinking water without tons of chemicals(news.umich.edu)

4 points by openmaze 1 year ago | 0 comments

Nontoxic powder uses sunlight to quickly disinfect contaminated drinking water(news.stanford.edu)

139 points by clouddrover 3 years ago | 70 comments

Fresh water on Earth emerged 500M years earlier than previously thought(curtin.edu.au)

58 points by geox 2 years ago | 59 comments

Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water(news.mit.edu)

275 points by abathur 3 years ago | 162 comments

Research shows plant-based polymers can disappear within seven months(today.ucsd.edu)

191 points by geox 2 years ago | 111 comments

Water-purifying cup makes drinkable water from creeks and streams(cockrell.utexas.edu)

44 points by jdmark 3 years ago | 30 comments

Why is desalination so difficult?(practical.engineering)

577 points by mrzool 3 years ago | 392 comments

Practical Engineering blog post with an embedded video explaining why desalinating seawater into drinking water is technically and economically difficult.

Study finds billions of nanoplastics released when microwaving containers(news.unl.edu)

426 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 301 comments

University of Nebraska–Lincoln news article on a study finding microwaving plastic baby food containers releases billions of nanoplastics that harm cultured kidney cells.

A new class of materials that can passively harvest water from air(blog.seas.upenn.edu)

374 points by Tycho 1 year ago | 167 comments

Penn Engineering blog post on a newly discovered class of nanostructured materials that passively pull water from air and release it onto surfaces without external energy.

AI uses less water than the public thinks(californiawaterblog.com)

359 points by hirpslop 5 months ago | 320 comments

California WaterBlog post examining AI and data center water use, arguing concerns are overstated and drawing lessons for California water management.

Tidal energy is not renewable(cs.stanford.edu)

332 points by wyozi 3 years ago | 239 comments

An essay by Jerry Z. Liu of Stanford arguing that tidal power is not renewable because extracting it slows Earth's rotation and could cause tidal locking to the Moon.

Carbon capture more costly than switching to renewables, researchers find(techxplore.com)

513 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 403 comments

TechXplore news article on Stanford research finding carbon capture is more costly than switching to renewable energy.