OceanWell, a water technology company, is testing new deep-sea desalination tech off California’s coast that could reduce the costs of drinking water for billions of people facing water scarcity.
The Los Angeles Times reported that OceanWell’s CEO, Robert Bergstrom, called the technology a “moonshot” that could transform access to drinking water worldwide. If the system proves it can produce affordable drinking water, the company plans on building a revolutionary water farm anchored to the seafloor off the coast of Malibu.
“It can potentially provide us Californians with a reliable water supply that doesn’t create toxic brine that impacts marine life, nor does it have intakes that suck the life out of the ocean,” Mark Gold, director of water scarcity solutions for the Natural Resources Defense Council, told the Times. “If this technology is proven to be viable, scalable and cost-effective, it would greatly enhance our climate resilience.”…