For every liter of drinking water, desalination produces 1.6 liters of brine; when released back into the sea, this highly saline by-product can destroy marine life.

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Tap water in North Carolina might be about to get much saltier, possibly impacting tourism to the Tar Heel State. Due to rising sea levels, the ocean is slowly encroaching into coastal land in ...

Roughly 70% of drinking water in the United States comes from surface waters such as rivers, and higher concentrations of ...

The river supplies about 60 percent of drinking water to Philadelphia’s 1.5 million people, but saltwater intrusion and pollution is threatening this crucial resource.

The river supplies about 60 percent of drinking water to Philadelphia’s 1.5 million people, but saltwater intrusion and pollution is threatening this crucial resource.

THE possibilities of obtaining potable water from sea-water by some simple method suitable for use on lifeboats and in similar circumstances have been much discussed during the last few months in ...

As the name says, tap water is the one that comes out of a faucet. ... If you use distilled water for your fish tank, be sure to add a sea minerals supplement to the aquarium.

Attendees of a tap water conference voted Denver has the best tap water in the U.S. and Canada, but judges from the ...

Ships and subs at sea are surrounded by billions of gallons of water, all of it undrinkable because of its high salt content. So how do they get drinking water?