Desalination technologies and their environmental impacts: a review

S Almasoudi, B Jamoussi - Sustainable Chemistry One World, 2024 - Elsevier
The rapid increase in population growth and subsequent urbanization and industrialization
has led to a global water demand. Hence, due to the challenges associated with accessing …

Membrane technology for water production in agriculture: Desalination and wastewater reuse

CA Quist-Jensen, F Macedonio, E Drioli - Desalination, 2015 - Elsevier
The problem of water shortage affects not only human and industrial activities but also an
adequate and sustainable food production. Water quality in agriculture does not have the …

The water–energy nexus in Middle East and North Africa

A Siddiqi, LD Anadon - Energy policy, 2011 - Elsevier
Extracting, delivering, and disposing water requires energy, and similarly, many processes
for extracting and refining various fuel sources and producing electricity use water. This so …

Self-powered solar desalination using solar still enhanced by external solar collector and phase change material

M Al-Harahsheh, M Abu-Arabi, M Ahmad… - Applied Thermal …, 2022 - Elsevier
The performance of a self-powered double-glass cover solar still with phase change
material (PCM) connected to solar collector was studied. Black painted stainless-steel tubes …

Comprehensive environmental assessment of rainwater harvesting systems: a literature review

A Teston, T Piccinini Scolaro, J Kuntz Maykot, E Ghisi - Water, 2022 - mdpi.com
The feasibility of installing rainwater harvesting systems in buildings is usually defined
based primarily on economic analysis. In this perspective, we reviewed the literature related …

Scenario-based planning for tourism development using system dynamic modelling: A case study of Cat Ba Island, Vietnam

T Mai, C Smith - Tourism Management, 2018 - Elsevier
Tourism destinations are dynamically complex systems in which behaviour is controlled by
many interacting components and feedback loops. Yet tourism destination planning has …

Faradic capacitive deionization (FCDI) for desalination and ion removal from wastewater

ET Sayed, M Al Radi, A Ahmad, MA Abdelkareem… - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
Capacitive deionization (CDI) is one of the emerging desalination technologies that attracted
much attention in the last years as a low-cost, energy-efficient, and environmentally-friendly …

A Novel framework for integrating United Nations Sustainable Development Goals into sustainable non-residential building assessment and management in Jordan

R Alawneh, F Ghazali, H Ali, AF Sadullah - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2019 - Elsevier
Across the world, governments have developed strategies to achieve the United Nations
Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). Sustainable buildings perform a significant …

Estimation of the water footprint of kiwifruit: in the areas transferred from hazelnut to kiwi

G Bilge Ozturk, M Ozenen Kavlak, SN Cabuk… - … Science and Pollution …, 2022 - Springer
Agriculture is the largest consumer of freshwater and plays a critical role in addressing
global water scarcity. While numerous studies have focused on the water footprint (WF) of …

Assessing the contribution of water and energy efficiency in green buildings to achieve United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in Jordan

R Alawneh, FEM Ghazali, H Ali, M Asif - Building and Environment, 2018 - Elsevier
Water and energy efficiency are given high priority in all green building assessment
systems. However, a method to assess and improve their contributions to achieve the United …