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IEEE Spectrum
June 2010
Sally Adee |
Eight Technologies for Drinkable Seawater Desalination takes too much energy, but emerging technologies will help   |
Fast Company
February 2009
Jeff Hull |
Water Desalination: The Answer to the World's Thirst? As supplies of fresh water evaporate, the world turns to the sea. |
Chemistry World
February 2012 |
Keeping the tap on James Mitchell Crow investigates routes to quenching our thirst without costing the Earth. |
Popular Mechanics
February 5, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
Plumbing the Planet: The 5 Biggest Projects Taking on the World's Water Supply Around the world, countries are trying to combat water supply problems with ever-more-clever engineering: bigger and badder treatment plants, pipelines, tunnels and reservoirs. Here are five projects hoping to be big and bad enough. |
Chemistry World
August 7, 2008 |
Making Seawater Easier to Swallow Researchers based in the US and Korea have developed a membrane that cuts the costs of filtering salt from seawater. |
BusinessWeek
March 10, 2011
Caroline Winter |
Innovator: Robert McGinnis of Oasys Water The former Navy diver was dismayed by how much energy it takes to desalinate seawater. So he developed a more efficient process. |
IDB America
May 2004
Daniel Drosdoff |
Barbados Acts to Prevent Water Crisis Geography and the tourism industry complicate the island's efforts to secure freshwater supplies. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2008
Sarah Adee |
New Water Technology Headed for Parched Places Capacitive deionization to debut in drought-struck Australia. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2008
Sally Adee |
Water Ship Up Firm gets $250 million to make oceangoing desalination vessels. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2010
Sandra Upson |
Singapore's Water Cycle Wizardry Singapore's toilet-to-tap technology has saved the country from shortages -- and a large electricity bill |
Wired
April 21, 2008
Matthew Power |
Peak Water: Aquifers and Rivers Are Running Dry. How Three Regions Are Coping. Water has been a serious issue in the developing world for so long, but the scarcity of freshwater is no longer a problem restricted to poor countries. |
IDB America
August 2005
Daniel Drossdoff |
From the Sea to the Kitchen How a new desalination technology is easing The Bahamas' age-old water problems. The plant was constructed on a build-own-operate contract and sells its entire production to The Bahamas Water and Sewerage Corporation (WSC). |
Chemistry World
June 10, 2012
Jon Cartwright |
Electrode dip to freshen up saltwater Producing freshwater from brackish water could be cheaper and easier than previously thought, according to researchers who have developed a new technique for desalination. |
The Motley Fool
October 27, 2011
Rebecca Lipman |
Desalination: China's Next Growth Industry? Do you think these names have something to gain from China's determination to grow the desalination industry? |
Chemistry World
March 18, 2011
Rebecca Brodie |
Simple salt removal to get fresh water Scientists in the US have developed a membrane-free, solvent extraction method to remove salt from seawater that works at low temperatures. |
Chemistry World
January 22, 2015
Katie Lian Hui Lim |
Switching desalination plants from carbon dioxide source to sink A new process has been proposed to decompose waste desalination brine using solar energy that could allow desalination plants to act as a sink rather than a source of atmospheric carbon dioxide, and help to neutralize ocean acidity. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2010
Jean Kumagai |
Australia's Drought-Busting Water Grid In the driest continent, saving water means spending watts |
Wired
June 2005
Carl Hoffman |
The Mad Genius from the Bottom of the Sea Unlimited energy. Fast-growing fruit. Free air-conditioning. John Pina Craven says we can have it all by tapping the icy waters of the deep. |
Inc.
November 2008
Adam Bluestein |
Blue is the New Green The world is running out of clean water. The prospect of widespread shortages is creating a new kind of new economy. Meet 11 entrepreneurs who are ahead of the curve, finding opportunity in the largest emerging market the world has seen in some time. |
Wired
November 2004
Jeff Howe |
The Great Southwest Salt Saga How an accidental oasis in the Mexican desert sank Arizona's $250 million desalination plant. A case study in the law of unintended consequences. |
Chemistry World
March 21, 2010
Lewis Brindley |
Drinking water from sunlight and seawater A device that can 'push' the salt out of seawater has been developed by US researchers. |
Food Engineering
July 30, 2009
Kevin T. Higgins |
Water Efficiency: Don't Let Your Liquid Assets Go Down the Drain Food processors confront both financial and behavioral issues when they implement green water practices. |
The Motley Fool
December 7, 2006
Jack Uldrich |
GE Aims to Make Waves Using wind to make clean water could be a winning combination for GE. |
The Motley Fool
April 10, 2008
Kris Eddy |
It's a Wet World The water-purification industry presents many investing angles. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2010
Harry Goldstein |
Malta's Smart Grid Solution The world's first multiutility grid should save water and money |
Popular Mechanics
December 9, 2009
Adam Hadhazy |
Cutting Water Use to Curb Carbon Dioxide By taking water conservation further, and by thinking differently about how we treat and move water, analysts believe the U.S. can achieve dramatic reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions fairly quickly. |
Chemistry World
September 2009 |
Column: The crucible Philip Ball looks at a new device that creates energy from salinity differences between fresh and sea water |
HBS Working Knowledge
October 17, 2005
Garry Emmons |
Turning on the Tap: Is Water the Next Oil? Many competing forces lead some experts to believe that water will replace petroleum as the twenty-first century's core commodity, with nations rich in water enjoying enormous social and economic advantages over those that are not. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2008
Michael Milstein |
6 Radical Solutions for U.S. Southwest's Peak Water Problem Increased usage and years of drought are diminishing the Colorado River's flow. States that rely on that water are forming strategies to deal with the problem. |
National Defense
December 2012
Dan Parsons |
Water, Water Everywhere ... That Troops Can't Drink Napoleon Bonaparte is credited with saying that an army marches on its stomach. But an even more important tactical necessity than food is the availability of clean drinking water. |
Chemistry World
September 19, 2013
Banholzer & Jones |
Possible versus practical Scientists and engineers must do a better job assessing and explaining the difference between the subset of discoveries that offers practical solutions and the set that is simply possible. |
Fast Company
April 1, 2011
Charles Fishman |
The Business of Water Water is becoming a high-stakes business where there's money to be made everywhere you look - from greasy wool to microchips. |
Popular Mechanics
October 23, 2009
Tyghe Trimble |
Wave Power Desalination Plant Coming Soon to Texas With seawater filtered with energy from wave power filling corn-based plastic bottles, I have as close as you can get to environmentally friendly bottled water. |
Chemistry World
September 10, 2012 |
Low Salt Diet to Flush Out Oil BP has announced the first deployment of a new technology that it says will lead to a 'step change' in the amount of oil recovered from reservoirs. |
Chemistry World
December 5, 2007
Jonathan Edwards |
Water Cleaning Membrane Shows Hybrid Vigour Scientists in the US have combined naturally-occurring channel proteins with a new polymer to create a membrane that could be used to deliver drugs or purify water. |
Salon.com
August 28, 2002
Suzy Hansen |
Not a drop to drink Forget oil -- an expert on the world's water supply talks about the vital substance we will hoard, ration and probably go to war for in the near future. |
The Motley Fool
August 27, 2008
Toby Shute |
A Different Path to Green Profits From First Solar to American Superconductor to VeraSun Energy, there are countless ways to play the emergence of energy alternatives. |
Financial Advisor
September 2012
Thomas M. Kostigen |
From Red To Blue Investors should benefit from ongoing efforts to improve poor water management around the world. |
The Motley Fool
January 3, 2012
Jacob Roche |
Your Portfolio Needs Water! Water is perhaps our most precious commodity but is often overlooked as an investment. |
The Motley Fool
January 18, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
Is Water Recession-Proof? Water is the most precious commodity on the planet, but is it a good investment? |
The Motley Fool
October 20, 2011
Rebecca Lipman |
Water Shortages: Here Are the U.S. Companies to Watch So as long as water shortages continue to plague wealthy regions investors might want to consider the possibility of tracking utility stocks exposed to the trend. |
Chemistry World
October 20, 2015
Philip Ball |
Nanotube desalination could be put back on track Computer simulations by researchers in China show what seems to be holding up this technology -- and suggest a way round the problem. |
