Since its invention a half century ago, tremendous efforts have been made in different scientific and technological aspects to boost membrane distillation (MD) from research at laboratory scale to industrial implementation. These efforts are reflected by the exponential increase of the number of publications in scientific journals and patents, especially...

This special issue aims to attract submissions on the assessment, impacts and future solutions related to desalination that are connected to the COVID-19 global pandemic of 2020. Desalination is utilized and researched to produce clean water, process foods, and decontaminate wastewater, and will have been impacted due to the COVID-19 pandemic which...

Since osmosis was first documented by Jean-Antoine Nollet in 1748 and Sidney Loeb proposed the first application of forward osmosis (FO) in 1976, FO has resurrected and received growing attention over the last two decades. Unlike pressure-driven membrane process, FO is driven by the natural osmotic gradient between two solutions with different salinity...

Nanofibrous membranes, which feature high porosity and microporous nanostructures, are receiving much attention as an up-and-coming approach for desalination. Recently, nanofibrous membranes have been playing a dominant role in the providing of sustainable, cost-effective, and innovative separation technologies for water and wastewater treatment....

As fresh water demand has been drastically increased in the current era, wastewater treatment, further to seawater desalination, has been investigated as a new, promising resource of the water budget in many countries around the world. In this regard, the saline wastewater, which is typically generated in desalination plants (known as the “brine”...

The editorial team of Desalination would like to extend warmest and best wishes for the New Year to all our authors, reviewers and members of the Editorial Boards.