Growing industries in Arizona and across the U.S. have an increasing need for clean water but keeping up with the demand for products these industries produce involves processes that create a lot of brine, a salty waste byproduct that can become an environmental problem. Shahnawaz Sinha, an associate research professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, part of the Fulton Schools, is partnering with the Nestlé company to bolster the resilience of Arizona’s water resources by removing salt from water containing brine through a process that also extracts fresh water. Sinha foresees the project creating a way to sustainably manage waste byproducts while also extracting commercially viable materials from the process.

See also: ASU: Squeezing every last drop out of desalination wastewater, Mavens Notebook, July 16