SAN DIEGO, June 7 (UPI) -- San Diego County hopes to get 20 percent of its tap water from the ocean by 2020, which would make it the world leader in desalination, officials said.
MIAMI, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- The U.S. Navy has invited Centriforce Technology Corp. to deliver a presentation on its desalination technologies for potential future contracts.
PHOENIX, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Arizona's future water needs might be met by a planned desalination plant in Mexico, officials say.
MELBOURNE, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Dinosaur bones dating as far back as 115 million years are throwing a monkey wrench into construction of a water desalination plant in Australia.
LONDON, April 13 (UPI) -- British scientists say a plan to convert water from the English Channel into drinking water is unfeasible.
BAHRAIN, Bahrain, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Saudi Arabia is paying a group led by Germany's Siemens AG $2.14 billion to build a power and desalination plant.
TOKYO, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Three Japanese companies and Saudi Arabia plan to construct the world's largest power and desalination plant in Saudi Arabia worth more than $1 billion.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Saudi Arabia will pay a group of Japanese companies $1.1 billion to build a large power and desalination plant in the kingdom.
TAMPA,, Fla., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The construction of an environmentally friendly water desalination plant for Florida's Tampa Bay area is drawing scrutiny from around the world because of promi