will add 671,000 m3/d of new capacity, and a further 19 facilities and additional
682,000 m3/d (Myers, 2019). It is suggested that an environmental impact assessment
evaluate the environmental consequences of utilizing the brine effluents from the largescale desalination plants constructed in the vicinity of the Suez Canal to restore the
salinity barrier once posed by the Bitter Lakes as against the continuation of the current
situation.
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situation.
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Mediterranean region (MedMPA). 127 pp.
STERN N., ROTHMAN S.B.S. (2018) Iron Lion Zion: the successful, albeit lingered, invasion
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