Dear Patron,  Greetings from Water Today! I am working on the February 2017 issue and would like to invite you to contribute technical arti...

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Dear Patron,  Greetings from Water Today! I am working on the February 2017 issue and would like to invite you to contribute technical articles, case studies, research papers on 'Desalination' and facilitate a comprehensive perspective on the same. Please find below the theme note and do let us know if you could send us your article. Theme Note Water scarcity is becoming one of the major global challenges of our time due to environmental pollution and regional limitations on water availability.  Access to clean drinking water is one of the more serious health issues today. High population growth rate, urbanization and industrialization, coupled with limited availability of natural potable water resources are leading to serious deficits of freshwater across the world.  Freshwater sources are being continuously over-exploited and increased use of desalted seawater is inevitable in order to maintain a reasonable level of water supply. Conventional large-scale desalination is cost-prohibitive, energy-intensive and is conceived as not viable alternative due to increasing costs of fossil fuels. In addition, the environmental impacts of desalination are considered critical due to emissions from energy consumption and discharge of brine into the sea. Brine has extremely high salt concentration and also contains leftover chemicals and metals from the treatment process which poses danger to marine life. In recent years, numerous large-scale seawater desalination plants have been built in water-stressed countries to augment available water resources, and construction of new desalination plants is expected to increase in the near future. Despite major advancements in desalination technologies, seawater desalination is still more energy intensive compared to conventional technologies for the treatment of fresh water. There are also concerns about the potential environmental impacts of large-scale seawater desalination plants. This issue will be focusing on the possible reductions in energy demand by the seawater desalination technologies, the potential role of advanced materials and innovative technologies in improving performance, and the sustainability of desalination as a technological solution to global water shortages. We would like to invite you to share your experiences in the form of articles, technical papers and case studies with our readers. Please inform us of your intent to contribute at the earliest to editor@watertoday.org">editor@watertoday.org, so that we can evaluate the articles for the publication.   Topic WATER EXPO SPECIAL + Desalination  Length 2000-4000 words Inclusions Related graphs, tables and images (high-resolution) along with captions + short bio of the author/s (including author’s present designation, educational qualification/s and years of experience in the field) Article Deadline January 20, 2017 Best regards  Hemlatha editor@watertoday.org">editor@watertoday.org

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