socioeconomic development in the long run. To solve or eliminate water shortage problems, seawater desalination draws more and more … attention as an alternative water supply source. The objective of the study is to assess the potential of desalination as a … viable alternate water source for China through analysis of the costs of desalination, the water demand and supply situation …

sheer limitless resource of desalinated water. This study looks at the development of desalination and its costs over time … that a cost of 1 $/m3 for seawater desalination and 0.6 $/m3 for brackish water would be feasible today. The costs will … conducted in order to estimate the total cost of desalination and the transport of desalinated water to selected water stress …