Will 2019 be another high tide mark for desalination?

摘要

There's an old cliche that the construction of the tallest building in the world is the herald of difficult financial times for the place where it's put up. The Empire State Building started to go up just as New York's bankers were beginning to eye the windows nervously as the Great Depression began. The Sears tower in Chicago came just in time for a bird's-eye view of the oil crisis that eventually brought down the US's rust belt. More recently, Malaysia's Petronas Towers welcomed the late-'9os Asian financial crisis, and Dubai's Burj Khalifa came amid the Emirate's own credit crunch.