Critical insights for a sustainability framework to address integrated community water services: Technical metrics and approaches

X Xue, ME Schoen, XC Ma, TR Hawkins, NJ Ashbolt… - Water Research, 2015 - Elsevier
Planning for sustainable community water systems requires a comprehensive
understanding and assessment of the integrated source-drinking-wastewater systems over …

Role of pressure in organic fouling in forward osmosis and reverse osmosis

M Xie, J Lee, LD Nghiem, M Elimelech - Journal of Membrane Science, 2015 - Elsevier
Fundamental understanding of membrane fouling in osmosis-driven membrane processes
is important for further deployment of this emerging technology in desalination and …

A political–industrial ecology of water supply infrastructure for Los Angeles

JJ Cousins, JP Newell - Geoforum, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper develops a political–industrial ecology approach to explore the urban water
metabolism of Los Angeles, which sprawls for thousands of miles across the American West …

Life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) for selection of sewer pipe materials

S Akhtar, B Reza, K Hewage, A Shahriar… - Clean Technologies and …, 2015 - Springer
Sewer systems, over their life cycle, suffer deterioration due to aging, aggressive
environmental factors, increased demand, inadequate design, third party intervention, and …

Environmental and economic assessment of beach well intake versus open intake for seawater reverse osmosis desalination

MP Shahabi, A McHugh, G Ho - Desalination, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper presents a comparative life cycle assessment (LCA) and levelised cost (LC)
analysis of two scenarios: an open intake scenario in which a seawater reverse osmosis …

A systemic framework and analysis of urban water energy

SJ Kenway, A Binks, J Lane, PA Lant, KL Lam… - … Modelling & Software, 2015 - Elsevier
Energy impacts of urban water systems are substantial, but not typically analysed
systemically. We develop a new system boundary framework including a utility, the 'bulk …

Combined sewer overflow control with LID based on SWMM: an example in Shanghai, China

ZL Liao, GQ Zhang, ZH Wu, Y He… - Water Science and …, 2015 - iwaponline.com
Although low impact development (LID) has been commonly applied across the developed
countries for mitigating the negative impacts of combined sewer overflows (CSOs) on urban …

Impacts of long-term irrigation of domestic treated wastewater on soil biogeochemistry and bacterial community structure

D Wafula, JR White, A Canion, C Jagoe… - Applied and …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
Freshwater scarcity and regulations on wastewater disposal have necessitated the reuse of
treated wastewater (TWW) for soil irrigation, which has several environmental and economic …

Cost–effectiveness analysis on LID measures of a highly urbanized area

Z Liao, H Chen, F Huang, H Li - Desalination and Water Treatment, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Studies on the cost–effectiveness analysis on low impact development (LID) measures are
demanded for guiding the plan, design, and construction of LID in rapidly and highly …

A high‐resolution approach to mapping energy flows through water infrastructure systems

ES Spang, FJ Loge - Journal of Industrial Ecology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Using data from the water service area of the East Bay Municipal Utility District in Northern
California, we develop and discuss a method for assessing, at a high resolution, the energy …