Role of desalination in addressing water scarcity / Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia.

There is a growing concern among the international community that a pending water crisis is threatening the entire global population, not only those living in arid to semi-arid areas. This report, the second in the series of the United Nations World Water Development Report (WWDR), gives and overvi...

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Corporate Author: United Nations. Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
Format: Government Document Book
Language:English
Published: New York : United Nations, 2009.
Series:ESCWA water development report ; 3.
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