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
(Visualizza in formato marc)
(Visualizza in BIBFRAME)
| Titolo: |
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
|
| Pubblicazione: | Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, c2008 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 628.167 |
| Soggetto topico: | Saline water conversion - United States |
| Water-supply - Environmental aspects - United States | |
| Water - Purification - United States | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-261). |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | There has been an exponential increase in desalination capacity both globally and nationally since 1960, fueled in part by growing concern for local water scarcity and made possible to a great extent by a major federal investment for desalination research and development. Traditional sources of supply are increasingly expensive, unavailable, or controversial, but desalination technology offers the potential to substantially reduce water scarcity by converting the almost inexhaustible supply of seawater and the apparently vast quantities of brackish groundwater into new sources of freshwater. Desalinationassesses the state of the art in relevant desalination technologies, and factors such as cost and implementation challenges. It also describes reasonable long-term goals for advancing desalination technology, posits recommendations for action and research, estimates the funding necessary to support the proposed research agenda, and identifies appropriate roles for governmental and nongovernmental entities. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Desalination |
| ISBN: | 9786611800321 |
| 9780309134347 | |
| 030913434X | |
| 9781281800329 | |
| 1281800325 | |
| 9780309119245 | |
| 0309119243 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910968129003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |