The Claude "Bud" Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant near San Diego uses reverse osmosis filtration to provide 50 million gallons of desalinated seawater per day. Image Credit: Reed Kaestner, Getty ...

Steve Griffin | The Salt Lake Tribune The Intermountain Power Plant near Delta, Utah Friday April 12, 2013. The coal-powered plant is being converted to run on a combination of natural gas and ...

The Houma Plant already was drawing water from Bayou Black for months because the Intracoastal had salt levels that were too high, but Nov. 10, Bayou Black's salt water content rose above safe levels.

An intrusion of salt water moving up the Mississippi River from the Gulf of Mexico is threatening local drinking water supplies. A federal emergency has been declared in Orleans, Jefferson ...

Boothville Water Treatment Plant and MPW prepares hoses to preform reverse osmosis on drinking water as Plaquimines Parish prepares for the saltwater wedge again in Boothville, La., Wednesday, Aug ...

The Houma Plant already was drawing water from Bayou Black for months because the Intracoastal had salt levels that were too high, but Nov. 10, Bayou Black's salt water content rose above safe levels.