Declining water quality can impact the economy in various ways. Impacts can be found in the health sector, where labor productivity can be affected, in agriculture, where the quality …
J Chen, Y Gao, H Qian, H Jia, Q Zhang - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
Water sustainability is imperative for socio-economic development. The grey water footprint (GWF) is a useful indicator for quantifying how human activities influence freshwater …
The primary pollutants and pollution levels of surface water present spatial and temporal changes. This study quantified the grey water footprint (GWF) and surface water pollution …
Emerging pollutants, including pharmaceutical compounds, are producing water pollution problems around the world. Some pharmaceutical pollutants, which mainly reach …
The grey water footprint refers to the volume of water that is required to assimilate polluted water. It reflects the intensity of water pollution caused by water use for human activities. This …
Drawing from papers in this special volume (SV), this introductory paper on absolute reductions argues that the magnitude, scope and urgency of the sustainability challenge …
X Liao, L Chai, Y Liang - Science of The Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Urbanization is accompanied by growing household consumption and changing consumption patterns, with both having impacts on the life-cycle water pollution generated …
T Crovella, A Paiano, G Lagioia - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Currently, agriculture uses about 70–80% of global water resources and, in the Mediterranean area, it accounts for the high pressure of freshwater demand. This study …
X Zhao, X Liao, B Chen, MR Tillotson, W Guo… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2019 - Elsevier
Grey water footprint (GWF) accounting has previously been conducted at the global level using a bottom-up approach but lacking detailed industrial information. Here we applied a …