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The Use Of Coastal Reservoirs And Spp Strategy To Provide Sufficient High Quality Water To Coastal Communities, Shu-Qing Yang, Samuel Kelly

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B

Water quality-induced water shortage is emerging as one of the main threats for the growth of the world's population and economic development, especially for coastal cities in developing nations. This paper discusses how to supply enough sufficiently clean water to such cities using the technologies of coastal reservoirs and wetland pre-treatments, as well as employing the SPP strategy. The so-called coastal reservoir is defined as a freshwater reservoir situated in seawater which sources its water from river runoff; to improve its water quality, a wetland is used to pre-treat the runoff that is potentially polluted by domestic, agricultural and industrial …