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Optimal expansion of a drinking water infrastructure system with respect to carbon footprint, cost-effectiveness and water demand
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This case study presents strategies that prioritize 20 options that provide a possible expansion schedule over the next 20 years that improve water infrastructure resilience and at low life-cycle costs.About:
This article is published in Journal of Environmental Management.The article was published on 2012-11-15. It has received 30 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Integrated water resources management & Water conservation.read more
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Energy intensity of rainwater harvesting systems: A review
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the energy intensity data reported for RHS and outlined strategies to enhance the energy performance of RHS in buildings and found that RHS tend to be three times more energy intensive than conventional town water supply systems, although optimised RHS can have more comparable values.
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Resilience and Complexity: A Bibliometric Review and Prospects for Industrial Ecology
Sara Meerow,Joshua P. Newell +1 more
TL;DR: This paper conducted a bibliometric analysis of the academic literature over a 40-year period (1973-2014) and revealed a large body of scholarship composed of five clearly identifiable intellectual communities, with resilience theory from ecology especially influential.
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Life cycle assessment of water reuse systems in an industrial park.
TL;DR: The results show the water reuse is beneficial and the reuse rate significantly affects environmental performance of the system, and it is found that using the reclaimed water for higher value applications results in larger environmental credit.
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Calculation of Carbon Footprints for Water Diversion and Desalination Projects
TL;DR: In this article, the authors defined the carbon footprint concept in relation to water resources and estimated the carbon footprints for several water resource projects including China's south-to-north water diversion project and desalination plants in the UAE.
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Critical insights for a sustainability framework to address integrated community water services: Technical metrics and approaches
Xiaobo Xue,Mary E. Schoen,Xin Cissy Ma,Troy R. Hawkins,Nicholas J. Ashbolt,Jennifer L. Cashdollar,Jay L. Garland +6 more
TL;DR: The strengths and weaknesses of key system-based tools and metrics are analyzed, and future directions to identify more sustainable municipal water services are discussed, which may include the need for novel metrics that address system adaptability to future changes and infrastructure robustness.
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Life Cycle Assessment for Sustainable Metropolitan Water Systems Planning
TL;DR: A methodology tailored to strategic planning needs which retains a high degree of model segmentation in order to enhance modeling of a large, complex system is discussed.
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A framework for systems analysis of sustainable urban water management
TL;DR: In this paper, a set of sustainability criteria, covering health and hygiene, social and cultural aspects, environmental aspects, economy and technical considerations, are defined for sustainable urban water management.
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Life cycle assessment of wastewater systems : Influence of system boundaries and scale on calculated environmental loads
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the environmental loads from wastewater systems with different technical solutions and found that the separation systems outperformed the conventional systems by showing lower emissions to water and more efficient recycling of nutrients to agriculture, especially of nitrogen but also of phosphorus.
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A life cycle assessment based procedure for development of environmental sustainability indicators for urban water systems
TL;DR: An iterative procedure for the selection of indicators, which reflect the environmental sustainability of urban water systems, is presented in this article, where the analytical basis for selecting indicators is life cycle assessment, which provides a stringent assessment of environmental sustainability.
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Assessing the sustainability of agriculture at the planning stage
Carl Smith,G. T. McDonald +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the current state of knowledge in defining sustainable agriculture within the broader sphere of sustainable development is reviewed, and a framework for integrated sustainability assessment encompasses a mosaic of factors and hierarchy of scales important to agricultural sustainability.