The widespread practice of disposing produced and flowback waters (brines) in injection wells involves wasting resources that can be used in oilfields and adjoining areas. In the Marcellus and Utica ...

Technology meant to help solve the world’s growing water shortage is producing a salty environmental dilemma. Desalination facilities, which extract drinkable water from the ocean, discharge around ...

World's ~16,000 desalination plants discharge 142 million cubic meters of brine daily -- 50 percent more than previously estimated; Enough in a year to cover Florida under a foot (30.5 cm) of brine ...

A new way to recover almost 100 percent of the water from highly concentrated salt solutions has now been developed by researchers. The system will alleviate water shortages in arid regions and reduce ...

As clean freshwater has become scarcer around the world—especially in arid regions such as the Middle East and North Africa—those countries that can afford it have increasingly turned to desalination.

NASA's newest technology demonstration is designed to improve water recycling on the International Space Station and boost the efficiency of water recycling for the Artemis generation NASA's newest ...

OSLO (Reuters) - Almost 16,000 desalination plants worldwide produce bigger-than-expected flows of highly salty waste water and toxic chemicals that are damaging the envi ronment, a U.N.-backed study ...

Growing populations and tightening water supplies have spurred people in many places—including the Middle East, Australia, California and China—to look to the oceans and other salty waters as a source ...