Tap water in North Carolina might be about to get much saltier, possibly impacting tourism to the Tar Heel State. Due to rising sea levels, the ocean is slowly encroaching into coastal land in ...

For every liter of drinking water, desalination produces 1.6 liters of brine; when released back into the sea, this highly saline by-product can destroy marine life.

Is tap water safe to drink is an easy question for some: Yes. But for others, drinking water from a faucet can be scary. Here’s what the experts say.

Roughly 70% of drinking water in the United States comes from surface waters such as rivers, and higher concentrations of salt can be difficult and costly to remove.

Two litres of tap water in the regional New South Wales town of Walgett has as much sodium as an entire large bag of sea salt ...

Ships and subs at sea are surrounded by billions of gallons of water, all of it undrinkable because of its high salt content. So how do they get drinking water? advertisement. SlashGear.

Water expert warns that tap and bottled water contain harmful chemicals, with 200 million Americans drinking ...

The sun and the sea -- both abundant and free -- are being harnessed in a unique project to create vertical sea farms floating on the ocean that can produce fresh water for drinking and agriculture.

As the name says, tap water is the one that comes out of a faucet. ... If you use distilled water for your fish tank, be sure to add a sea minerals supplement to the aquarium.

Drinking water is not yet impacted, but officials are taking urgent measures. Drought and sea level rise have caused salt water from the Atlantic Ocean to creep into the Delaware River Basin, a ...

Ships and subs at sea are surrounded by billions of gallons of water, all of it undrinkable because of its high salt content. So how do they get drinking water?