Carbon Footprint of Water Supply and Wastewater Treatment
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Wastewater Treatment and Reuse".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2018) | Viewed by 20559
Special Issue Editor
Interests: coastal and ocean engineering; earth science and hydrology; energy and climate change; environmental engineering; water pollution; groundwater; hydraulics; renewable energy; waste management
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue invites research articles on the carbon footprint of water supply and wastewater treatment. Such studies could focus on centralised water treatment and supply networks and/or sewerage networks and wastewater treatment plants. Equally, the research could focus on more decentralised or on-site water and wastewater treatment systems. Comparison between centralised versus decentralised approaches to water provision and wastewater treatment would also be most welcome. The use of life cycle analysis is increasingly being used to determine net carbon emissions of the overall systems or individual treatment processes, or studies may focus on the operational carbon footprint of existing infrastructure. Aspects, such as water-related energy requirements (and opportunities for energy recovery), direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions and evaluation of different water management strategies to reduce carbon emissions (e.g., water conservation, efficiency, reuse, passive treatment etc.), are encouraged.Prof. Laurence Gill
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- carbon footprint
- life cycle analysis
- water treatment and supply
- wastewater treatment
- centralised
- decentralised
- energy-water nexus
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