Can Large-Scale Offshore Membrane Desalination Cost-Effectively and Ecologically Address Water Scarcity in the Middle East?
The Middle East will face tremendous water scarcity by 2050, which can only be mitigated by large-scale reverse osmosis seawater desalination. However, the coastal land in the region is rare and costly, so outsourcing the desalination facility to artificial islands could become a realistic scenario....
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2022-03-01
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Series: | Membranes |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0375/12/3/323 |