Water scarcity - the challenge of the future

✍ Scribed by Mohammad Abdul-Kareem Al-Sofi

• Book ID: 103055582
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 539 KB
• Volume: 98
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0011-9164
• DOI: 10.1016/0011-9164(94)00168-5

✦ Synopsis

The main water source in the Arabian Gulf States is from underground aquifers or seawater desalination with a capacity of 5 Gega liter per day (half the global capacity).

Three tiers of water consumption are correlated to three costing strategies in inverse relation between themjustified by production interchangeability and savings in coproduction plants. Alternatives to desalination considered to augment water supply are conservation, waste water reuse, and extensive exploration.