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The potential for desalination technologies in meeting the water crisis

Abstract:

This chapter presents the potential paper of desalination as a new and non-finite source of fresh water that plays an important role in solving fresh water scarcity in some oil-rich regions and the Middle East, and in many arid and semiarid countries. The most widespread desalination technologies, the weight of desalination in the different regions of the world and the future trends, the economic costs of desalted water and the uses derived from those costs, and the environmental charges of desalination and their corrective measures to be undertaken have been reviewed carefully in the paper. Finally, the future improvements expected for desalination technology, and their economic and environmental consequences are also briefly commented in the chapter.