The End of Scarcity? Water Desalination as The New Cornucopia for Mediterranean Spain
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Títol: | The End of Scarcity? Water Desalination as The New Cornucopia for Mediterranean Spain |
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Autors: | March, Hug | Sauri, David | Rico, Antonio |
Grups d'investigació o GITE: | Agua y Territorio | Clima y Ordenación del Territorio |
Centre, Departament o Servei: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Análisis Geográfico Regional y Geografía Física | Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Interuniversitario de Geografía |
Paraules clau: | Desalination | Urban growth | Drought | Alternative water sources | AGUA Program | Mediterranean Spain |
Àrees de coneixement: | Análisis Geográfico Regional |
Data de publicació: | 19-d’abril-2014 |
Editor: | Elsevier |
Citació bibliogràfica: | Journal of Hydrology. 2014, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 19 April 2014. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.04.023 |
Resum: | In this paper we explore the new orientation taken by Spanish water policy since the beginning of the 21st century and very specifically the shift towards desalination as an alternative to other water supply options such as river regulation or inter-basin water transfers. Desalination has been seen as the cure for everything that dams and inter-basin water transfers were unable to solve, including droughts, scarcities, social conflicts, environmental impacts, and political rivalries among the different Spanish regions. Desalination also means a new and powerful element in water planning and management that could provide water for the continuous expansion of the urban and tourist growth machine in Mediterranean Spain and thus relax possible water constraints on this growth. However, by 2012 most new desalination plants along the Mediterranean coast remained almost idle. Focusing on the case of the Mancomunidad de Canales del Taibillla in South-eastern Spain, our aim is to develop a critical, integrated and reflexive perspective on the use of desalination as a source of water for urban and regional growth. |
Patrocinadors: | Part of this research was funded by the Spanish CICYT under grant numbers CSO2012-36997-C02-01, CSO2012-36997-C02-02 and JCI-2011-10709. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/36857 |
ISSN: | 0022-1694 (Print) | 1879-2707 (Online) |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.04.023 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipus: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Revisió científica: | si |
Versió de l'editor: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.04.023 |
Apareix a la col·lecció: | INV - Agua y Territorio - Artículos de Revistas INV - CyOT - Artículos de Revistas |
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2014_March_etal_Journal-of-Hydrology.pdf | Accepted Manuscript (acceso abierto) | 1,38 MB | Adobe PDF | Obrir Vista prèvia |
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