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To avoid a water crisis, Texas may bet big on desalination. Here’s how it works in El Paso.

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Greater effort needed to make desalination cost-effective, environmentally sound

It's hard to envision a future water supply portfolio that meets our state's ever-increasing demand for potable water that ...
Los Angeles Times

New desalination technology being tested in California could lower costs of tapping seawater

A new deep-sea desalination technology is undergoing testing in Southern California. Water managers hope it will offer an economical and environmentally friendly way of tapping the Pacific Ocean for ...
YouTube on MSN

How this seawater desalination technology will change the world

Water. Without it, the life of a plant, an animal, or a person is inconceivable. Ironically, despite the huge volumes of ...
Forbes

Flocean’s Deepwater Desalination Reforms A Vital But Costly Industry

Flocean's subsea desalination team in June, 2024. Alexander Fuglesang, CEO, is second from the left in the front row, wearing a dark blue shirt. According to Bank of America research, water scarcity ...
E&E

California looks to streamline desalination plants

Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered the State Water Resources Control Board to consider changing its ocean protection standards to help boost the state’s water supplies amid climate change. SACRAMENTO, ...
Yahoo

A desalination plant could be coming to Galveston Bay as Texas looks to shore up water supply

A private company is seeking state approval to build a seawater desalination plant in Texas City that would provide fresh drinking water to Harris and Galveston counties. On Friday, EPCOR filed a ...
Houston Chronicle

Lawmakers hope desalination can bring new water to Texas. Critics want protections for the coast.

In an effort to shore up the state’s future water supply, Texas lawmakers have stressed the need to secure new sources and point to desalination as a potential solution to looming shortages. But ...
Corpus Christi Caller-Times

To avoid water crisis, Texas may bet big on desalination. Here’s how it works in El Paso.

This article is part of Running Out, an occasional series about Texas’ water crisis. EL PASO — The wind swept through El Paso one day in March, lifting a fine layer of dust that settled onto ...
Yahoo

To avoid water crisis, Texas may bet big on desalination. Here’s how it works in El Paso.

EL PASO — The wind swept through El Paso one day in March, lifting a fine layer of dust that settled onto windshields, clothes and skin. The air was thick with haze from a dust storm. This border city ...
KLTV

To avoid a water crisis, Texas may bet big on desalination. Here’s how it works in El Paso.

EL PASO, Texas (The Texas Tribune) - Desalination can create millions of gallons of fresh water a day, but it is expensive and there are many environmental concerns. The wind swept through El Paso one ...