Developing Public Policy Options for Access to Drinking Water in Peripheral, Disaster and Polluted Rural Areas: A Case Study on Environment-Friendly and Conventional Technologies

Petrescu-Mag, Ruxandra Mălina; Petrescu, Dacinia Crina; Safirescu, Ovidiu Călin; Hetvary, Mihaela; Oroian, Ioan; Vâju, Dumitru

doi:10.3390/w8030080

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“…Gender had no influence on the WTP for wastewater treatment in any of tested situations. Water is seen as the most valuable resource and as a transversal issue for all policy sectors, from environment to health or military security [69], which makes the preservation of water quality an objective as important as its availability. Moreover, environment is a public good and pollution can get a transboundary character and, therefore, it is the interest of all countries to participate in pollution reduction.…”

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Wastewater Reflections in Consumer Mind: Evidence from Sewage Services Consumer Behaviour

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Environmental concerns have become an important decision-making determinant for consumers. Hundreds of emerging pollutants and their metabolites are listed as present in European aquatic environments and human settlements are blamed as major sources of water pollution. It was assumed that as long as water treatment is not totally effective and it requires a high amount of energy and resources, household’s contribution through correct behaviour in relation to the load of waste they discharge in the sewage system can reduce efforts towards wastewater treatment. Consequently, the main objective of this study was to investigate households’ perception and behaviour related to wastewater treatment services. Results are based on a random survey with a sample of 125 Romanian consumers of water supply and sewage services. A key finding is that investigated wastewater services consumers perceive the effect of discharging untreated wastewater in the environment as highly negative both on human health and on the environment, thus pointing out the importance associated by them to water treatment. This research argues that understanding wastewater services consumer behaviour enlarges the way toward reducing environmental disturbances.

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“…Population-specific problems in general, also recorded in the case of Roma minority from Pata Rât, occur when the life experience or behavior of a group results in their inequitable treatment [ 65 ]. It is about a group of people constantly pushed at the edge of the society, and here the “peripheral” concept must be understood both from geographical, territorial, point of view, and from an economic and social perspective [ 57 ]. Pata Rât is at the economic “periphery” and at the socially deprived outskirts of the agricultural and industrial productivity system of Cluj county [ 66 ].…”

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“…Additionally, obstacles in communication with Pata Rât inhabitants prevented the collection of large quantity of data, such as those required by a probabilistic survey. The evaluation matrix weights an idea (scenario/action option) in accordance to several factors or criteria, enabling the user to quickly identify the strengths and weaknesses of the options and to select the best one [ 57 ].…”

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Environmental Equity through Negotiation: A Case Study on Urban Landfills and the Roma Community

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The paper discusses the necessity to bring environmental equity within the Pata Rât Roma community in Northwest Romania, relying on the answers to three questions: “Does environmental equity exist in Pata Rât?”, “How can it be attained?”, and “To what extent can it be brought to the targeted people?” It was shown how a trio of factors tailors the destiny of Roma inhabitants: being a minority, their ethnicity, and the fact they are living on and off what society rejects and dumps—a landfill. The framing of the environmental equity concerns within a vision considering negotiation as the most adequate means to attain it is a novel approach. Further on, the results of the study can fuel win-win solutions in environmental equity. The information abstracted from a set of indicators, assessed through an evaluation matrix, represents a beneficial platform for future bottom-up decisions concerning landfill residents. Three action options were analyzed: on-site living opportunities—that resulted to be preferred, off-site living opportunities, and “Do nothing”. The analysis provides qualitative evidence that the evaluation of environmental equity is largely subjective, because of its complexity and specificity related to geographical, historical, cultural characteristics, and political interests.

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“…For example, nature-based coagulants produced from renewable resources (Teixeira et al 2017) are regularly referred to as "green" technologies. Reductions in energy consumption and waste production are already common goals in the industry, and biological filtration processes that "work for free" are referred to as either "natural" or "green" treatment technologiestheir use in drinking water treatment plants is increasingly described as "by design" rather than de facto (Kirisits et al 2019;Brown et al 2015;Basu et al 2015;Petrescu et al 2016). At the regional landscapescale, sophisticated watershed management techniques focused on maintaining high quality source water are often relied upon to avoid the construction of costly filtration plants and are being increasingly implemented for the mitigation of climate change-exacerbated landscape disturbances such as severe wildfires (Robinne et al 2019;NAS 2018;Cristan et al 2016;Emelko et al 2011).…”

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Advancing on the Promises of Techno-ecological Nature-based Solutions: A Framework for Green Technology in Water Supply & Treatment

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Dickson‐Anderson³

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Nature-based Solutions (NBS) are increasingly proposed for effectively and adaptively addressing societal challenges such as water security and natural disasters. However, NBS that are exclusively reliant on natural processes are not fit-for-purpose for the provision of safe drinking water—some range of built technology is required. There is a wide spectrum of techno-ecological NBS—“green technologies”—that are fit-for-purpose in the treatment and distribution of safe drinking water. A framework was developed to enable accurate and transparent description of the “green” attributes of technology—including green infrastructure—in the water industry. The framework differentiates technology “greenness” by relatively examining key attributes that may cause environmental impacts across the technology’s life cycle, through the lens of the environmental setting in which it is applied. In the water industry, green technology can be described by four main attributes: natural resource-basis, energy consumption, waste production, and footprint. These attributes are closely linked and must be considered relative to the biophysical and human environments in which they are applied and the other technologies to which they are being compared. The use of the framework can facilitate techno-ecological decision-making that strives to address diverse stakeholder priorities—including the influence of sociocultural factors on green technology preferences of individuals, groups, or communities.

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Developing Public Policy Options for Access to Drinking Water in Peripheral, Disaster and Polluted Rural Areas: A Case Study on Environment-Friendly and Conventional Technologies

Cited by 7 publications

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Wastewater Reflections in Consumer Mind: Evidence from Sewage Services Consumer Behaviour

Wastewater Reflections in Consumer Mind: Evidence from Sewage Services Consumer Behaviour

Environmental Equity through Negotiation: A Case Study on Urban Landfills and the Roma Community

Advancing on the Promises of Techno-ecological Nature-based Solutions: A Framework for Green Technology in Water Supply & Treatment

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