Antarctica-to-Western Australia Liquid Freshwater Shipments Using Stauber Bags in a Paternoster-Like Transfer System: Inaugurating a Southern Ocean Antidrought Action Sea-Lane

• Other Authors: Richard B. Cathcart, Charles W. Finkl, Viorel Badescu
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Amery; Amery Ice Shelf; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUIR000506; https://fau.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fau%3A98410/datastream/TN/view/Antarctica-to-Western%20Australia%20Liquid%20Freshwater%20Shipments%20Using%20Stauber%20Bags%20in%20a%20Paternoster-Like%20Transfer%20System%3A%20Inaugurating%20a%20Southern%20Ocean%20Antidrought%20Action%20Sea-Lane.jpg

Australia is one of the driest continents on earth with most interior lands classified as steppe or desert. With an expanding coastal population pushing farther inland, the need for freshwater increases for urban use, agriculture, and industry and because there is little freshwater at the surface an...