Desalination: Status and Federal Issues
In the United States, desalination is increasingly investigated as an option for meeting municipal water demands, particularly for coastal communities that can desalinate seawater or estuarine water, interior communities above brackish groundwater aquifers, and communities with contaminated water supplies. Adoption of desalination, however, remains constrained by financial, environmental, regulatory, and other factors.
The Future is Plastics
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Right-To-Know Network
This recently redesigned site is an information hub helping advocates push for improved access to government held information on the environment, health, and safety. It provides links to news items, databases and issues on pollution, health, policies, science, ets. The databases provide free public access to environmental information managed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Much of the information is provided as data.
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DoE Data Explorer: Discovering Data in the Department of Energy
The DOE Data Explorer (DDE) is an information tool which includes a database of citations prepared by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) based on the information found at various data-hosting Web sites. The DOE Data Explorer can be used to find collections of scientific research data, such as computer simulations, figures and plots, interactive maps, multimedia, numeric files, and scientific images.
