Short Communication
How Can We Make Desalination More Reliable, Efficient and Sustainable?
Received Date: December 12, 2019; Published Date: January 06, 2020
Abstract
Utility leaders worldwide face multiple challenges to secure a reliable, efficient and sustainable future water supply – from accelerated population growth, to exhaustion of our traditional water sources, water scarcity driven by climate change and inefficient management of our available water resources. Finding a rational solution for sustainable water supply compels us to seek new water management solutions based on:
• Adopting the wider use of alternative water resources such as desalination of sea and brackish water
• Driving down the barriers for low energy desalination
• Extracting valuable resources (such as minerals and rare metals) from the waste streams generated during the water treatment processes, and
• Increasing reliance on renewable energy sources.
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