Desalination impacts on the marine environment

The Marine Environment: Ecology, Management and Conservation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-50

  Palomar, P ^a,b   Losada, I J ^b  

^a Ministerio de Agricultura Alimentación y Medio Ambiente   (Spain)

^b ENVIRONMENTAL HYDRAULICS INSTITUTE IH CANTABRIA   (Spain)

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