Dear Patron, Greetings from Water Today! I am working on the June 2017 issue and would like to invite you to contribute technical articles, case studies, research papers on “ The Latest Advances & Opportunities In Desalination Technologies” 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 - The Latest Advances & Opportunities In Desalination Technologies –June 2017 issue More than 750 million people currently lack access to safe drinking water worldwide. While conservation efforts may ease some of the supply problems, continually increasing demands of water resource are pressing the boundaries of technology to come up with new solutions. One of the technologies that have been employed for more than 60 years is desalination, but it has its own set of environmental and economic problems. Over the last 30 years desalination has evolved into a viable alternative water supply due to increasing water scarcity. It allows us to tap non-traditional water resources with great potential to provide a sustainable, drought-proof water supply. Desalination provides only around 1% of the world’s drinking water, but this percentage is growing year-on-year. An expected US$10 billion investment in the next five years would add 5.7 million cubic meters per day of new production capacity. This capacity is expected to double by 2030. Desalination has long been associated with one process, turning seawater into portable water. But a host of new technologies are being developed that not only are improving traditional desalination but also opening up new frontiers in reusing everything from agricultural water to industrial effluent. Two basic technologies have been widely used to separate salts from ocean water: thermal evaporation and membrane separation. Advances in desalination technology are closest in dynamics to that of computer technology. Seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) membranes today are many times smaller, more productive and cheaper than the first working prototypes. Conventional technologies like sedimentation and filtration have seen modest advances since their initial use for water treatment several centuries ago; but new, more efficient desalination membranes, innovative thermal membranes or hybrid desalination technologies, and equipment improvements, are released every few years. No major technology breakthroughs are expected to dramatically lower cost of seawater desalination in the next several years. But technology advances are expected to reduce the cost of desalinated water by 20% in the next five years, and by up to 60% in the next 20 years, making it a viable and cost-effective competitor for potable water production. While desalination in the Middle East and North African region is projected to grow continuously at a rate of 7-9% per year, the hot spots for accelerated desalination development over the next decade are expected to be Asia, the US and Latin America. Our June issue will quantitatively focus on the sustainability paradigm and its application to water desalination. 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, so that we can evaluate the articles for the publication. Topic The Latest Advances & Opportunities In Desalination Technologies 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 April 20, 2017 You can also send in details about new product launches and press releases for inclusion in the magazine to editor@watertoday.org ; Best regards Hema
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- Water
- Treatment
- Desalination
- Water Supply