Dwindling Global Freshwater Sources Drives Focus on Desalination as a Viable Antidote to the Looming Water Crisis
Dwindling availability of freshwater supplies, increased salinity of ground water, and development of innovative energy efficient desalination technologies are poised to drive the global market for Desalination Technologies to exceed US$36.8 billion by 2024 . Desalination can be defined as the process of converting saline unusable water into fresh usable one, through extraction and removal of dissolved salts from available water sources in order to make it viable for human use. Commercial interest in water desalination is supported by growing awareness about the need to address impending usable water crisis; increasing focus on making well informed water management decisions regarding conservation, use, allocation; and growing interest in developing technologies which provide fresh water to humans in regions where fresh water availability is dwindling. Brackish groundwater desalination is growing in popularity among inland communities largely as a result of the substantially...