1. Deming, H. G., Water—The Fountain of Opportunity, Oxford University Press, New York, 1975. Original manuscript revised and updated by W. Sherman Gillam and W. H. McCoy.
2. Delyannis, A. A., and Delyannis, E. A., Water Desalting: Gmelin’s Handbook of Inorganic Chemistry, supplementary volume (Anhangband) to Oxygen, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1974. A very comprehensive compilation of literature data.
3. Spiegler, K. S., and Laird, A. D. K., eds., Principles of Desalination, 2nd ed., Academic Press, New York, 1977. This monograph contains comprehensive chapters, most with substantial literature reviews (to 1975), on the major desalting methods, on desalting energetics, and on the cost of conventional water supply.
4. Apelcin, I., and Klyachko, V., Opresnenie Vodi [Water Desalination], Moscow, 1968. In Russian, 200 pp., paperback.
5. Desalination Abstracts, National Center for Scientific and Technological Information, P.O. Box 20125, Tel Aviv, Israel. An extensive international quarterly compilation listing books, journal articles, and patents by subject; started in 1965.