desalinate

Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is awash with the stuff, but water -- specifically, the clean and drinkable kind -- is inaccessible to billions of people. A new purification system developed by researchers at the Beckman Institute for…

Vanderbilt researchers are part of a team that has developed a cutting-edge method that seeks to make the removal of salt from hypersaline industrial wastewater far more energy-efficient and cost-effective. While desalination through…