Tamar Opher

TL;DR: A decentralized approach to urban wastewater management is environmentally preferable to the common centralized system, and a shift to a larger share of renewable energy sources in the electricity mix results in a dramatic improvement in most impact categories.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the main pollutants in road runoff is presented, and the importance of the factors affecting road runoff quality, the main of which are traffic, rainfall, local conditions (climate and land use) and highway characteristics.

TL;DR: In this article, a 39-yr record (1969-2008) of temperature profiles from Lake Kinneret, Israel, revealed that average epilimnion thickness decreased by - 1.2 m (∼ 3 cm yr−1 ), metalimnions thickness decreased between ∼ 1.0 m (December) and ∼ 2.0m (April), and average temperature of the epilinnet increased by ∼ 1°C ( ∼ 0.028°C yr −1 ).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined sustainability of utilizing reclaimed domestic wastewater in urban households for toilet flushing and garden irrigation, using a coal-based electricity mix, and compared four approaches: (0) Business-as-usual (BAU) alternative, where the central domestic wastewater treatment plant effluent is discharged to nature; (1) central domestic WW treatment and urban reuse of the effluent produced; (2) semi-distributed greywater treatment and reuse, at cluster scale; (3) distributed greywater extraction and reuse at building scale.

TL;DR: In this article, the social benefits and impacts of four alternative approaches to urban domestic non-potable water reuse were compared: (1) central wastewater treatment, no urban reuse.