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Desalination : a national perspective / Committee on Advancing Desalination Technology, Water Science and Technology Board, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies.
LIBRA TD479 .D475 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Saline water conversion--United States.
- Saline water conversion.
- Water-supply--Environmental aspects--United States.
- Water-supply.
- Water--Purification--United States.
- Water.
- Water--Purification.
- Water-supply--Environmental aspects.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Historical and contemporary context for desalination
- Water for the future
- State of the technology
- Environmental issues
- The costs and benefits of desalination
- Implementation issues
- A strategic research agenda for desalination.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-261).
- ISBN:
- 0309119235
- 9780309119238
- OCLC:
- 228498007
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