Water Desalination
Water Desalination
Focuses on Florida. Examines the need for technology, processes, energy requirements, regulations, costs and the future. Includes graph, table and appendix.
1,575 words (
approx. 6.3 pages) |
33 sources |
1999
Paper Summary:
Water Supply Problems That Compel Desalination Generally.
Around the world, primarily in heavily populated zones of the temperate climes, available fresh water sources for municipal-scale, public water supplies have become overtaxed.
From the Paper:
"DESALINATION OF DRINKING WATER IN FLORIDA
Water Supply Problems That Compel Desalination Generally.
Around the world, primarily in heavily populated zones of the temperate climes, available fresh water sources for municipal-scale, public water supplies have become overtaxed. Either there are shortages, net of demand, or water has been reused so many times that the remaining resource is saltier than is healthy for beasts, plants, or people. At the same time, accumulated brine and even abundant sea water remain available, even inexhaustible, if only desalting technologies can be applied feasibly. Even where fresh water is available, moreover, some commercial processes or machinery require waters of very low dissolved solids contents, such as soft-drink or medicine manufacture or industrial boilers or cooling towers. For these ..."
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