Year
1965
Abstract
In the United States a water shortage already exists in Arizona and another will soon develop in California. The successively higher cost of each new water diversion project suggests the need to compare the costs with those of alternate methods of achieving the same result. Large nuclear dual-purpose desalination plants represent such an alternate method. If all the cost advantages of nuclear plants are fully exploited, it is probable that a significant portion of the world's new water requirements will be economically furnished by desalination.