Tag: Desalination

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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

• 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

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  Researchers Develop Chlorine-Tolerant Membrane for Easy Desalination

  Record droughts, falling water tables and the rapid depletion of aquifers have helped make desalination, a process once considered impractical and too expensive, a viable technology -- at least in some places. As such, there has been a rash of stories --

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  Tampa Bay Florida Area Drinks Oil-Fired Water

  There isn't much choice, as groundwater reserves are insufficient. But really...is bottled water any worse than this? Four years behind schedule and nearly $80 million over the original budget, the nation's largest sea water desalination facility

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  Ecocities of Tomorrow: Can Foster + Partners' Masdar City in U.A.E be Truly Sustainable?

  With over a third of the world's cranes hard at work building artificial islands, an underwater hotel, and the world's tallest building, biggest mall and most expensive airport, the United Arab Emirates has now turned it attention to building the