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Water Transportation via Icebergs Towing
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Water Transportation via Icebergs Towing

Abstract

Climate change has fast-tracked the breaking of huge chunks of ice—icebergs—in the polar regions and subsequent drifting of the icebergs across the ocean. Despite being the world’s largest untapped freshwater source, icebergs continue to decay in the ocean over time in an era when freshwater shortages intensify in dry areas of the world, which desperately look for every option to augment water resources. Thus, an environmental …

Authors

Qadir M; Siriwardana N

Book title

Unconventional Water Resources

Pagination

pp. 199-212

Publisher

Springer Nature

Publication Date

2022

DOI

10.1007/978-3-030-90146-2_9