Resource-oriented sanitation: Identifying appropriate technologies and environmental gains by coupling Santiago software and life cycle assessment in a Brazilian case study

Lima, Priscila de Morais; Lopes, Thaís Andrade de Sampaio; Queiroz, Luciano Matos; McConville, Jennifer

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155777

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“…Other studies support this viewpoint, concluding that resource-oriented sanitation options are sustainable sanitation options. 24 - 26 The other groups—the elderly, mothers, and religious leaders—have different views on the reuse of feces-originating products.…”

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Qualitative Analysis of Onsite Sanitation Challenges in an Urban Setting: The Case of Jimma Town, Ethiopia

Donacho

Tucho

Soboksa

et al. 2023

Environ�Health�Insights

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On-site sanitation is the most popular sanitation option for households in many African countries, including Ethiopia. Despite the option being common, there are challenges attributed to the sustainability of those facilities. This community-based exploratory study aimed to explore the challenges in the provision of safe urban on-site sanitation in Jimma town, Ethiopia. Data were collected through key informant semi-structured interviews, transit walks through the village, and focus group discussion (FGD). The FGD was audio recorded and notes were taken by experts. Records and notes were transcribed separately and thematically analyzed. Three major themes or challenges were discovered. Accordingly, the first theme was the community’s perception and taboos surrounding human waste. The second theme was urban land use and informal settlements. Ensuring standards separately for sanitation facilities is difficult because of the expansion of illegal settlements. The third theme was poor sanitation planning, operation and maintenance, and institutional setting. Urbanization without infrastructure generally has a complex nature that leads to a fragile sanitation situation in the future. The results suggest the need for multi-dimensional system development and a collaborative sanitation master plan. Furthermore, interventions aimed at breaking the taboo on human waste as a sanitation platform may turn challenges into opportunities.

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Qualitative Analysis of Onsite Sanitation Challenges in an Urban Setting: The Case of Jimma Town, Ethiopia

Donacho

Tucho

Soboksa

et al. 2023

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“…Additionally, a number of studies have been devoted to the analysis of wastewater treatment, with objectives ranging from identifying and quantifying the environmental impacts of the wastewater plant to assessing its environmental performance Moreover, LCA analyses also pertain to entire wastewater treatment. The environmental performance of these systems is assessed through LCA in these instances, which involve the evaluation of an integrated wastewater system, as was the case with the assessments conducted in Italy [Arfelli et al, 2022], Brazil [Lima et al, 2022], Portugal [Boldrin & Formiga, 2023], which demonstrated that water withdrawal and water treatment contributed more to the majority of environmental impact categories due to the electricity consumption associated with these processes. Tong et al [2019] explained that stages of wastewater treatment and disposal made substantial contributions to the categories of eutrophication and marine ecotoxicity.…”

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Assessing the Environmental Implications of Water and Wastewater Production Using Life Cycle Assessment

Sudarno,

Wibowo,

Andarini

et al. 2024

Ecol. Eng. Environ. Technol.

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In the face of increasing global challenges, such as water scarcity, population growth, and environmental degradation, sustainable management of water resources and wastewater treatment is a major concern. However, sometimes the potential impact of water system management on the environmental implications contained in the production process of water and waste treatment systems is omitted. This study sought to assess the environmental efficacy of an integrated water supply and wastewater system in the Semarang City. The secondary objectives of the study were to ascertain the extent to which each stage of the system contributed to the impact categories that were analyzed. Life cycle assessment is a method to evaluation of the environmental impacts associated with water resource and wastewater management, using 1 m 3 as functional unit. The stages of water use are not examined in this study. Another restriction is the absence of information about the city's untreated wastewater quantities' final destination. Water treatment plant include water withdrawal and water distribution are most impacted under the climate change environmental impact category and other impact that assess until 99%. In seven of the eight impact categories examined, power consumption is the most impactful input.

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“…Additionally, the environmental impacts of recovering nutrients and water from wastewater treatment can also be assessed using LCA, and this can be seen within the retrieved documents (Lima et al, 2022;Magalhães et al, 2022). Only a few of the most recent articles do not use LCA, such as (Abdelzaher et al, 2023), who designed a desalination system that is integrated with renewable energies applied to agriculture to lower environmental contaminants as a result of reduced energy usage and freshwater transfer.…”

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On the integration of Impact Assessment and Circular Economy: a literature review

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Resource-oriented sanitation: Identifying appropriate technologies and environmental gains by coupling Santiago software and life cycle assessment in a Brazilian case study

Cited by 9 publications

References 35 publications

Qualitative Analysis of Onsite Sanitation Challenges in an Urban Setting: The Case of Jimma Town, Ethiopia

Qualitative Analysis of Onsite Sanitation Challenges in an Urban Setting: The Case of Jimma Town, Ethiopia

Assessing the Environmental Implications of Water and Wastewater Production Using Life Cycle Assessment

On the integration of Impact Assessment and Circular Economy: a literature review

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