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Jan 1963
Outlook for Economic Use of Fresh Water from the Sea
Publication: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Volume 128, Issue 3
Abstract
The need and market for fresh water from the sea or from inland saline waters are mainly dependent on the cost of producing such water, storing, and transmitting it to places of use in competition with other sources of fresh water supply.
Foreseeable costs of conversion far exceed prevailing costs of major domestic, industrial, and irrigation water supplies. Typical costs are presented for municipal, industrial, and irrigation supplies and for current and foreseeable costs of fresh water conversion. Comparison is made of water availability and requirements in the humid eastern United States and the semiarid western United States.
Conversion costs are too high for major sources of supply but are acceptable for isolated plants and, possibly in the future, for larger general use on the western Gulf coast of Texas, which will ultimately be short of water. Conversion of inland saline waters is further faced with expensive disposal of wastes, a subject that should be under study in parallel with desalinization research.
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Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Volume 128 • Issue 3 • January 1963
Pages: 130 - 141
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© 1963 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published in print: Jan 1963
Published online: Feb 10, 2021
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Samuel B. Morris, M.ASCE
Cons. Engr., Los Angeles, Calif.
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