The new process has obvious appeal in coastal areas where fresh water is scarce such as the Persian Gulf.
Implementing such measures is crucial in a place where water is scarce.
Doug Boykin, the state forester for Catron County, said water is scarce here, as many find out who try to dig a well.
Over the next few months, though, the company hopes to install a pilot system at a dairy farm in Texas near the New Mexico border, where water is scarce.
Where water is scarce, the development of crop varieties that grow under conditions of low moisture or temporary drought could boost yields and lengthen the time that farmland is productive.
The most likely answer, as he explains in a paper in the Journal of Experimental Biology, is that urine, though cheap to produce when water is plentiful, is a physiologically costly product when water is scarce.
The conversation is always water is a human right and should be given to everyone free, or water is a scarce commodity and should be fully privatized, when, in truth, we have a world in which 1.3 billion people have no access to safe drinking water.
Turtle kidneys have difficulty processing salt water, so for an animal that lives in a brackish environment potable water is always scarce.
This treatment and reuse approach has the additional benefit of requiring much less water in those areas where water is a scarce resource.
Because solar power production makes the most sense in sunny, arid climates, this is precisely where consuming scarce water resources is most harmful to the environment.
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It is also crucial in a place like Malaysia where water is only occasionally scarce.
Systems like these are becoming more attractive as fresh water is becoming more scarce and expensive.
Jordan is moving towards increased reliance on groundwater as an alternative to surface water and according to the 4th United Nations World Water Development Report 2012 co-authored by UNESCO, it is the fourth most water scarce country in the world.
The Government of Kenya, which is hosting the meeting, said that while the country is still considered a water-scarce country with only water per capita of about 647m3 per year, studies are showing that Kenya has up to 60 billion cubic metres of groundwater potential that needs to be located.
While large-scale desalination is not uncommon in those parts of the world where natural water resources are scarce -- such as Texas and Australia -- the UAE is by some margin, according to Iannelli, the industry's most active player.
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He is giving a talk "Water as a Scarce Resource: A Threat to Growth Targets in the East of England" to a Royal Town Planning Institute conference in Cambridge on Wednesday.
With the population of the water-stressed south-east of England projected to grow by almost a quarter by 2035, Lord Smith argued that the number of smaller reservoirs needed to be increased immediately and that new ways of transferring water from areas where it is plentiful to areas where it is scarce must be established.
On the water front, not only is dirty quality still a big problem in much of Asia, but scarce quantity, too.
But if they are sincere, it is probably because they believe they must plan for a world in which water and other natural resources are increasingly scarce.
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