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The Roadmap notes that it is a “living document,” that will continue to evolve and improve with time. The Roadmap’s focus is to present “broad research areas that are representative of the types of scientific. | Review of the Desalination and Water Purification Technology Roadmap http catalog 4 Implementation The Roadmap notes that it is a living document that will continue to evolve and improve with time. The Roadmap s focus is to present broad research areas that are representative of the types of scientific and technical advances that will be necessary for desalination and water purification technologies to find wide acceptance USBR and SNL 2003 . Section of the Roadmap entitled Next Steps positions the Roadmap at the upper end of a continuum of parallel activities to build additional water supplies through desalination and membrane-based water purification Figure 4-1 . While the Roadmap recognizes the broader steps necessary for wider application of desalination including characterizing the resources addressing regulatory issues improving global collaboration and addressing issues of commercialization and facility siting the Roadmap does not provide an implementation strategy for its own research agenda. IMPLEMENTATION STEPS Much remains to be done to build on the efforts to date and turn these preliminary research ideas into a program for strategic research investments in the area of desalination technologies. In order to achieve the objectives of the Roadmap the program will need adequate funding for research involvement of talented scientific researchers worldwide strategic awarding of research funding and effective communication of the research findings to the desalination community. These necessary implementation steps and the roles of various agencies in these steps are described below. Funding Implementation of the Roadmap As noted in Chapter 1 past federal investments pre-1982 in desalination research were substantial and resulted in large improvements in efficiency and the development of reverse osmosis technology. Current funding levels within the federal government for non-military application of desalination however are .