With California struggling through historic drought, the Coastal Commission on Thursday approved a desalination plant that could turn up to 5 million gallons of seawater a day into drinkable water.

Tim Quinn, left, OceanWell's water policy strategist, watches Mark Golay, the company's director of engineering projects, as he lowers a desalination prototype into Las Virgenes Reservoir in Westlake ...

The American West is experiencing its driest period in human history, a megadrought that threatens health, agriculture and entire ways of life. DRIED UP is examining the dire effects of the drought on ...

Utah proposes aiding California in making desalination plants, in exchange for a share of Colorado River water.

Robert Bergstrom, CEO of OceanWell, says his company’s desalination pods that had been tested at a freshwater reservoir near Los Angeles are a step closer to going into the ocean. The California-based ...

For more than two decades, California’s Orange County has debated whether to build a seaside plant to convert the Pacific Ocean’s salt water into drinking water in hopes of buffering against droughts ...

Saying it needs to evaluate all options for new sources of drinking water, Silicon Valley’s largest water district is studying a plan to build the first seawater desalination plant along the shores of ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The biggest seawater desalination plant in the Western Hemisphere, north of San Diego, can begin construction by year's end after a six-year effort to win regulators' approval, ...

Californians could be drinking water tapped from the Pacific Ocean off Malibu several years from now — that is, if a company's new desalination technology proves viable. OceanWell Co. plans to anchor ...