Call for articles on ""IS DESALINATION EVOLVED TO A VIABLE ALTERNATIVE WATER SUPPLY?" - May 2018 Issue Dear Industry Colleagues, Greetings from Water Today!I am working on the May 2018 issue and would like to invite you to contribute technical articles, case studies, research papers on “ Is Desalination Evolved to A Viable Alternative Water Supply? ” 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: Is Desalination Evolved to a Viable Alternative Water Supply?Urbanization, industrialization, rapidly growing population 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. To deal with the increasing global water crisis, desalination has evolved into a viable alternative water supply in the last three decades. The number of desalination plants across the world is expected to rise for the foreseeable future. While desalination provides only ~2% of the world’s drinking water, this percentage is growing year-on-year. Worldwide, there are a number of desalination plants that have been described as uneconomical and unproductive. Those plants are generally expensive, incorrectly promoted, badly designed or established in unsuitable terrain. Therefore, the advantages and disadvantages must be carefully studied in order to make a desalination plant appropriate for that region.Desalination plants produce over 3.5 billion gallons of potable water a day and operate in more than 120 countries in the world. The installed RO desalination plant capacity has increased in an exponential scale over the last three decades. While seawater desalination plants are already vital for economic development in many arid and water-short areas of the world, many plants are overly expensive, inaccurately promoted, poorly designed, inappropriately sited, and ultimately useless. In the last decade, desalination using semi-permeable seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) membranes has come to dominate desalination markets. Developments in SWRO desalination technology during the past two decades, combined with a transition to large capacity plants, co-location with power plant generation and enhanced competition from the Build-Own-Operate-Transfer (BOOT) method of project delivery, have resulted in a dramatic decrease of the cost of desalinated water. To avoid new, expensive errors, policymakers should take a careful look at the advantages and disadvantages of desalination and develop clear guidance on how to evaluate and judge proposals for new facilities. Our May issue will be focusing on the viability of desalination as an alternative water supply. 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 IS DESALINATION EVOLVED TO A VIABLE ALTERNATIVE WATER SUPPLY Length2000-4000 wordsInclusionsRelated 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 DeadlineApril 15, 2018You 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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