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Moving to General Equilibrium: The Role of CGEs for Economic Analysis of Water Infrastructure Projects

"The desire of policymakers and public finance institutions to understand the contribution of water infrastructure to the wider economy, rather than the value of project-level outputs in isolation... " – By Kenneth M. Strzepek and James E. Neumann

An Innovative Approach to Hybridizing Two Established Desalination Technologies or Toward Ensuring a Future Global Water Supply: Using a Hybrid Multieffect Desalination with an Adsorption Cycle

"The global water supply–demand gap is rising with population growth, urbanization trends, and industrialization. This situation is expected to push 40% of the world’s population below the water scarcity..." – By Muhammad Wakil Shahzad and Muhammad Ahmad

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