Tag: Desalination
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Masdar Developing Desalination Plants Powered by Renewable Sources
The UAE's clean tech giant plans to have a commerical-scale plant by 2020.
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New Desalination Technology Achieves 99% Water Recovery Rate at Bottling Plant
A new water treatment system could save billions of gallons of water each year by recovering almost all of the waste water at bottling plants and water treatment facilities.
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New Low-Cost Desalination System Targets Fracking Wastewater
A new desalination technology company is looking to help clean up and recover some of the trillion gallons of salty wastewater from the oil and gas industry.
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Looking Backward to Move Forward: Solar Stills Could be the Low-Cost Leader in Water Desalination
Using solar stills to purify water isn't a new idea, but it's an effective one. And now new efforts are underway to use this old technology to help green the desert.
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Floating "Solar Cucumbers" Form Artificial Reefs That Desalinate Sea Water (Video)
These low-impact, solar-powered desalination units could be a potential boon to water-scarce coastal communities, disaster-prone areas, as well as local marine life.
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Solar Still Makes Water Purification Easy, Works Like an Upside-Down Coffee Maker
This simple, innovative solar still purifies water without electricity or filters.
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Andrew Heintzman on the New Green Entrepreneurs (Podcast)
All over the world, inspired, creative, (and often obsessed) entrepreneurs are tightening bolts and swirling beakers, inventing the next generation of green technology. Andrew Heintzman is a venture capitalist with the aim of finding and funding these
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Katie Alcott of Frank Water on Being an Insider Rebel Within The Bottled Water Industry (Interview)
Here's a frequent question asked by people wanting to create positive sustainable changes in the world: Is it more effective to work as a change agent from inside the current system or is it better to
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DIY Seawater Desalination by Delicious Lady and Grandson (Video)
Directed by David Valero for the Spanish eco-short-films festival La Luciernaga fundida, this video shows how a grandmother and grandson desalinate seawater at home.
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Out of Water? How We Might Make More
Stand at the edge of a reservoir, river, or ocean and it's hard to imagine that the planet could ever run out of water; even just a day at the beach makes your one small shower a day seem like less of a threat. But with
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Why is Water Such a Big Issue? Global Water Challenge Pres. Paul Faeth Sets Us Straight (Part 1)
Having given Global Water Challenge a Best of Green award earlier this year for their innovative work on the issues of drinking water and sanitation, it goes without saying that TreeHugger is a fan of their work.
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Dean Kamen on Clean Energy, Clean Water, and Commuting in the Mega City (Part Two)
With his planes, helicopters, and other fuel-hungry pets, Dean Kamen admits that he takes a lot out of the world. This just means that, in keeping with his immigrant grandfather's advice, he has to put more back in. In the second part of our
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5 Great Rain Barrel Designs, Plus Top Tips for Using Them
Droughts and possible water rationing have been in the news recently in California, Israel, Mexico, and Australia. As much of the water used is these regions is for watering gardens and lawns
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Dean Kamen on Clean Energy, Clean Water, and Commuting in the Mega City (Part One)
Dean Kamen is the kind of inventor we don't imagine exists anymore—a fervent polymath like Thomas Edison. Best known as the creator of the Segway, Kamen is also responsible for major breakthroughs in clean energy, water purification, prosthetics,
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Observe World Water Day on March 22
Images from Prix Pictet World Water Day, celebrated on March 22 every year, is an initiative of the United Nations that recognises that water is a basic requirement for all life. This year's theme: "Shared Water - Shared Opportunities" and "Whether
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Green at WIRED NextFest: High-Volume, Small-Footprint, Low-Cost Water Purification
XEROX/PARC Spiral Water Filtration Technology A typical water-treatment plant is very big and very expensive. XEROX's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) has come up with a new technology that could make the whole process cheaper and simpler, potentially
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The TH Interview: Gidon Bromberg, Friends of the Earth - Middle East (Part Two)
In part one of this interview, Gidon discussed FoEME's work in promoting cross-border
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The TH Interview: Gidon Bromberg, Friends of the Earth - Middle East (Part One)
Bromberg, then a young lawyer working for an environmental NGO in Tel Aviv, was frustrated that environmental issues were not
