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Title: Water management, purification, and conservation in arid climates. Volume 3: Water conservation

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OSTI ID:20051017

Arid regions are already feeling the severe restraining effects of potable water shortages. In coming years, humid and sub-humid regions of the world will also have to face many of these same problems. In the future, serious conflicts may arise not because of a lack of oil, but due to water shortages. Are there solutions to these problems? Aside from increasing public awareness about the importance of water, society needs to take a three pronged approach: water needs to be effectively managed, it needs to be economically purified, and it needs to be conserved. Only by doing these three things in unison can they hope to alleviate the water problems faced by arid regions of the world. This book presents information valuable to seeking, finding and using current technologies to help solve these problems now. Volume 3 addresses aspects of water conservation and includes rainwater harvesting and wastewater reuse and reclamation.

Research Organization:
Sultan Qaboos Univ. (OM)
OSTI ID:
20051017
Resource Relation:
Other Information: Available as a 3 volume set, ISBN 1-56676-772-5, $249.95. Also can be ordered at www.techpub.com; PBD: 1999
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English