Chapter
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