Salt pollution presents an “existential threat to our freshwater supplies,” according to the study. It can corrode drinking water pipes, exacerbating lead pollution in water supplies, as it ...

The hope is that the technology will turn salt water to fresh water and open up doors to more water access to people and places where it’s hard to come by. Skip to content. KXAN Austin.

It’s a device that pumps out salt water, replenishes it with freshwater from the surface, and that is meant to protect vulnerable pump stations. Salt water (WAFB) ...

Jones said the present flow of fresh water down the river is about 148,000 cubic feet per second, not strong enough to halt the northward flow of salt water towards New Orleans.

For months, Louisiana oyster farmer Mitch Jurisich, Jr. watched the Mississippi as an invisible surge of Gulf of Mexico salt water crept up the tail end of the river, twisting along levees through ...

Roughly 71% of the Earth’s surface is water, with nearly 97.5% of that puddled in saltwater lakes and oceans. Fresh water—water containing less than 1000 milligrams per liter of dissolved ...

Unsafe levels of salt water may reach many New Orleans-area drinking water intakes by mid-October, forcing officials to scramble for barges that will bring in fresh water from further up the ...