Smoothing out the rough patches of a material widely used to filter saltwater could make producing freshwater more affordable, researchers report in the Aug. 17 Science. Desalination plants around the ...

The process of desalination, the filtering of salt from salt water, is surprisingly complicated. Removing impurities from water to leave a drinkable product at the end is often performed at dedicated ...

Saltwater isn’t just unsafe to drink, it would also have an insidious corrosive effect on the region’s water infrastructure, where lead pipes are common. If saltwater lingers in these pipes, lead ...