Environmental Impact Assessment of Desalination Projects

Desalination Technology: Health and Environmental Impacts

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 153-177

  Lattemann, Sabine ^a   Mancy, Khalil H ^b   Damitz, Bradley S ^c   Khordagui, Hosny K ^d   Leslie, Greg ^e  

^a German Federal Environmental Protection Agency   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia ^*  (United States)

^d United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia   (Lebanon)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

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