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6. Continental Brackish Groundwater Resources

Authors : Mark A. Person, Nafis Sazeed

Published in: Unconventional Water Resources

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Abstract

The global volume of continental brackish water is on the order of 5,000 × 10³ km³. This is about ten times the volume of freshwater to brackish water hosted in marine continental-shelf environments. On average, brackish water resources occupy about 11% of aquifer volume. Brackish water resources tend to occur in the upland areas of sedimentary basins close to recharge areas. While brackish water utilization for municipal water supplies is growing at a near exponential rate, economic barriers exist in many countries to the use of desalinated brackish water in the agricultural production of high-value crops. Linking brackish water desalination to geothermal greenhouse and aquaculture facilities in regions of high heat flow may be one strategy for agricultural cost reduction.

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Title: Continental Brackish Groundwater Resources
Authors: Mark A. Person
Nafis Sazeed
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Unconventional Water Resources
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-90145-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-90146-2

Copyright Year: 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90146-2_6