The desalination debate-technological optimists and pessimists: The great ideological divide

Environment

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 34-48

  Tal, Alon ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

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EID: 80053017778     PISSN: 00139157     EISSN: 19399154     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00139157.2011.604009     Document Type: Review

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