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| DOI | 10.3197/096734018X15254461646549 |
| Desert Dreams of Drinking the Sea, Consumed by the Cold War: Transnational Flows of Desalination and Energy from the Pacific to the Persian Gulf | |
| Low, Michael Christopher | |
| 通讯作者 | Low, MC |
| 来源期刊 | ENVIRONMENT AND HISTORY
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| ISSN | 0967-3407 |
| EISSN | 1752-7023 |
| 出版年 | 2020 |
| 卷号 | 26期号:2页码:145-174 |
| 英文摘要 | During the Cold War, from the early 1950s through the 1970s, the US Office of Saline Water was instrumental in spearheading the basic research and development that incubated the desalting techniques we see today. American technical assistance programs were fundamental to the growth of desalination capacity in the Middle East and its eventual globalisation. However, the federal government's original target for desalination was southern California and the arid Southwest. Desalination was proposed as the emergency backstop in the event that California's unquenchable thirst would inevitably overtax the dams of the Colorado River. And yet. American desalination never fully came to fruition. Instead, the promise of domestic desalination was co-opted and cannibalised by Cold War foreign policy. This essay traces how the Office of Saline Water's domestic desalination plans were repackaged and exported to Israel and Saudi Arabia. This essay considers how and why the United States slipped from the vanguard of desalination research while the Middle East emerged as its global leader. By connecting and comparing the divergent experiences of the American West and the Middle East, it also sheds new light on the nexus between the production of desalinated water and its key ingredient, energy. |
| 英文关键词 | Desalination energy nuclear power oil technopolitics water |
| 类型 | Article |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 收录类别 | SSCI ; AHCI |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000592694200002 |
| WOS关键词 | WATER ; TECHNOPOLITICS ; TECHNOLOGY ; HISTORY ; STATE |
| WOS类目 | Environmental Studies ; History |
| WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; History |
| 资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/327660 |
| 作者单位 | [Low, Michael Christopher] Iowa State Univ, Dept Hist, 657 Ross Hall,527 Farm House Lane, Ames, IA 50011 USA |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Low, Michael Christopher. Desert Dreams of Drinking the Sea, Consumed by the Cold War: Transnational Flows of Desalination and Energy from the Pacific to the Persian Gulf[J],2020,26(2):145-174. |
| APA | Low, Michael Christopher.(2020).Desert Dreams of Drinking the Sea, Consumed by the Cold War: Transnational Flows of Desalination and Energy from the Pacific to the Persian Gulf.ENVIRONMENT AND HISTORY,26(2),145-174. |
| MLA | Low, Michael Christopher."Desert Dreams of Drinking the Sea, Consumed by the Cold War: Transnational Flows of Desalination and Energy from the Pacific to the Persian Gulf".ENVIRONMENT AND HISTORY 26.2(2020):145-174. |
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