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Water Supply Scarcity in Southern California: Assessing Water District Level Strategies
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Water budgets are of particular interest in the Los Angeles water/energy system. Despite large water imports, much rainfall currently goes to waste as surface runoff through extensive flood control...
MASTER'S PROJECT: Water for All: Sustainable Solutions for Reducing and Utilizing Sarvajal's Reverse Osmosis Brine in Northwestern India
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The Piramal Foundation, operating under the brand "Sarvajal", provides clean and affordable drinking water to over 64,000 people in rural India through locally leased and operated reverse-osmosis (...
Benchmarking Current States' Wet Weather Discharge Policies
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ObjectivesAt the request of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), the objectives of this research effort are to benchmark the wet weather protocols and practices of the several sta...
Life Cycle Assessment Water Bottles
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Develop LCI data for water and wastewater treatment systems, including municipal systems in Oregon. This task includes researching the environmental burdens associated with municipal drinking water...
Sustainable Water Infrastructure in Developing Countries
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The Zambezi River Basin is home to 40 million people who rely on the river for drinking water, fisheries, irrigation, hydropower production, mining and industry, ecosystem maintenance, and other us...
Energy Utilization: Wastewater Treatment Facilities
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Life cycle assessment (LCA) is used to perform a quantitative assessment of the life cycle of wastewater. The assessment begins with the various sources and applicable pretreatment for wastewate...
Application of Life Cycle Assessment to US Water and Wastewater Treatment Facilities
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This study documents the energy intensity and environmental impacts from operation of water and wastewater treatment systems through case-studies in US. Life-cycle energy and impact assessments were c...
CSS Factsheets
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Development and maintenance of factsheets that illustrate current unsustainable patterns of providing various services to society in the United States (e.g., food, personal transportation, housing)...