Life cycle assessment (LCA) has been widely applied in the wastewater industry, but
inconsistencies in assumptions and methods have made it difficult for researchers and …

Life cycle assessment (LCA) has been proved to act as a desirable tool to evaluate the
environmental impacts of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). However, the application of …

Water, energy and food have the common characteristic of being scarce natural resources.
Their inextricable link is at the basis of the water, energy and food Nexus, meaning that …

Decentralised wastewater management (DWM) systems are deployed in areas where the
topography does not allow for gravity flow to a centralised system, or requires a complex and …

A comprehensive water-energy-carbon (WEC) nexus model for an urban water system
(UWS) using system dynamics is proposed to assist municipalities, urban developers, and …

Water is a growing concern in cities, and its sustainable management is very complex. Life
cycle assessment (LCA) has been increasingly used to assess the environmental impacts of …

Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) play an important role within the urban water cycle in
protecting receiving waters from untreated discharges. However, WWTPs processes also …

Stormwater management is essential to reducing the occurrence of flooding events in urban
areas and to adapting to climate change. The construction of stormwater Best Management …

Wastewater reuse (WW-reuse) is an alternative water resource that may answer present and
future water-scarcity issues, supplying diverse categories of water users: agricultural …

This study includes an environmental analysis of a membrane bioreactor (MBR), the
objective being to quantitatively define the inventory of the resources consumed and …