Modeling the effects of brine outflow from desalination plants on coastal food-webs of the Levantine basin (eastern Mediterranean Sea)

Grossowicz, Michal; Ofir, E.; Shabtay, Ateret; Wood, J. E.; Biton, Eli; Belkin, Natalia; Frid, Ori; Sisma-Ventura, Guy; Kress, Nurit; Berman‐Frank, Ilana

doi:10.1016/j.desal.2020.114757

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“…These environmental drivers were integrated into the Ecospace simulations via environmental response functions. Similarly, Grossowicz et al (2020) simulated the effects of desalination plants by means of environmental response functions to salinity and temperature.…”

Section: Other Infrastructure and Stressorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring multiple stressor effects with Ecopath, Ecosim, and Ecospace: Research designs, modeling techniques, and future directions

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Murray

Gregr

et al. 2023

Science of The Total Environment

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Section: Other Infrastructure and Stressorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring multiple stressor effects with Ecopath, Ecosim, and Ecospace: Research designs, modeling techniques, and future directions

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Murray

Gregr

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Science of The Total Environment

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“…However, for urban areas, desalination can only be a partial solution; its costs are high to the end user and to the environment. The full impacts of seawater desalination to the marine environment as well as the sensitivity of intake water to marine pollution are still unclear (Grossowicz et al 2020). To avoid the need for total reliance on desalination, household demand should be reduced using all available technologies and practices.…”

Section: Perceptions Among Israelismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Especially in Israel, decentralized water reuse systems employed at the household level could greatly impact water savings and reduce dependence on large scale desalination with all its economic and environmental costs (e.g. Grossowicz et al 2020). Friedler et al (2008) optimistically forecast that a realistic penetration ratio of domestic household-generated greywater by 2025 in the country could lie in the range of 19-31%, leading to a national water saving potential of 30 to 51Â10 6 m 3 /y.…”

Section: Institutional Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Public perceptions and perspectives on alternative sources of water for reuse generated at the household level

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Vdov

Schütze

et al. 2022

Journal of Water Reuse and Desalination

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Studying perceptions about reuse of alternative water sources informs about conditions necessary for transition to large-scale decentralized water reuse. We administered a perceptions survey to the public based on results of initial open interviews of water management experts in Israel. Experts indicated their views on impediments to widespread household water reuse which became the basis for developing the questionnaire. The latter aimed to understand views among the general public of: (a) willingness to adopt reuse practices from three sources: greywater, air conditioner condensate and roof-harvested rainwater; and (b) preferences for targeted use of these three types of reused water. The survey elicited 372 responses. A maximum-likelihood regression analysis was conducted using independent variables (i.e., demographic characteristics, individual positions regarding the state of the country's water resources and plans for the provision of domestic water (i.e., desalination), knowledge of the reuse practices and views about risks from various uses of the reused water, including off-premise). Willingness to implement reuse practices served as the dependent variable. We found that respondents indicating that they heard of the reuse of the particular types of reuse practices (variable: ‘Knowledge’) was the most significant of the independent variables for all three alternative water sources. Also, using an analytic hierarchy process, we determined that health risks were much more important when compared to convenience of use and costs under hypothetical scenarios of both moderate and significant savings in monthly water expenditures.

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“…Demand for freshwater has increased as a result of increasing population and climate change, and as a result, the seawater desalination sector has experienced exponential growth, with an ongoing rise in the number of reverse osmosis-based plants. (Grossowicz, et al, 2020). Desalination, which involves utilizing available seawater resources, stands out among these and other recently developed alternatives.…”

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Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Analysis for the Selection of Desalination Technologies

Hekimoğlu

Savun-Hekimoğlu²,

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et al. 2022

International Journal of Environment and Geoinformatics

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Accessible fresh water resources for drinking and usage are very limited in our world. Furthermore, these limited fresh water resources are gradually decreasing due to climate change, industrialization, and population growth. Despite the ever-increasing need for water, the inadequacies in our resources have made it critical to develop alternative drinking and utility water production methods. Desalination, one of the most important alternatives for fresh water supply, is on the rise on a global scale. Desalination facilities use various thermal and membrane techniques to separate water and salt. Concentrated brine, which contains desalination chemicals and significant amounts of salt, and is formed in high volumes from desalination processes, is also a concern. This article compares various desalination techniques using a multi-criteria decision-making method. The findings show that the Reverse Osmosis & Membrane Crystallization process is the most preferred technology due to its cost advantages as well as operational efficiency. Similarly, Multistage flash &Electrodialysis, the least preferred alternative, has been criticized for its low cost-effectiveness. These results suggest that cost and operational efficiency will continue to be the main drivers in the evaluation of desalination technologies in the near future.

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Modeling the effects of brine outflow from desalination plants on coastal food-webs of the Levantine basin (eastern Mediterranean Sea)

Cited by 19 publications

References 60 publications

Exploring multiple stressor effects with Ecopath, Ecosim, and Ecospace: Research designs, modeling techniques, and future directions

Exploring multiple stressor effects with Ecopath, Ecosim, and Ecospace: Research designs, modeling techniques, and future directions

Public perceptions and perspectives on alternative sources of water for reuse generated at the household level

Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Analysis for the Selection of Desalination Technologies

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