By Ramez Naam
This is Part Three of a five-part series by Ramez Naam, Singularity University Adjunct Faculty, exploring the power of innovation to boo...
In a new report issued today, the Pacific Institute released the results of a year-long analysis of the complex and controversial costs of seawater desalination. The conclusion? It is still really expensive, especially compared to alternatives.
Desalination plants are usually last resorts for arid places that have little choice. Yet United Water New York has chosen Rockland, NY as a test case for building its first big desalination plant in the northeastern U.S.
Within a few years, the quest for fresh water may supplant global anxiety about energy supplies. Prudent investors should be on the lookout for breakthrough technologies in water conservation and desalination.
Every week, someone asks me "Where is Steve Jobs of green?" or "Where is the Google of Green?"
To top it off, they usually ask in a supercilious tone...
Canadians will never go thirsty. With over one million lakes, including part ownership of the Great Lakes, and massive ice fields, Canada is home to n...
By 2013, desalination plants will be providing 44% of Israel's water demand. What is clear is that in the Middle East there will not be peace before everyone has enough water.
A truly effective and successful local water movement will be complicated, not easy. It will have to be flexible, not ideological. It will require different solutions in different places.
There's no question that the idea of a drought-proof supply of drinking water is a tantalizing one. But, as most of us learn pretty early in life, nothing comes for free.
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The Metropolitan Water District is considering two competing projects -- with two very different approaches -- to provide Southern California an extra fifty million gallons of freshwater per day.