Dr Corrado Sommariva’s new book examines economics and financing for desalination and water reuse projects

‘Desalination and Advanced Water Treatment: Economics and Financing’ by Dr Corrado Sommariva, is a detailed guide to technology selection for desalination and water reuse projects, providing readers with information required for feasibility economics, water cost, tariff modeling and budgeting of desalination and wastewater treatment plants. Dr Sommariva is an internationally recognised expert on desalination and water re-use and a Board Director of both the International Desalination Association (IDA) and European Desalination Society (EDS) organisations.

Desalination and Advanced Water Treatment Economics and Financing will provide the reader with in depth knowledge of:

  • Desalination and advanced wastewater technologies state of the art and future directions
  • Desalination technologies selection including energy — footprint, environmental issues, chemicals, operation and maintenance, lifetime assessment, CAPEX and OPEX
  • Financing,and contracting desalination and water treatment plants
  • Funding and gearing of desalination projects
  • Structure of project agreements and risk allocation
  • Cost of water
  • Tariff modelling
  • Budgeting and project implementation cash flows
  • Tariffs

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