Sewer-mining: A water reuse option supporting circular economy, public service provision and entrepreneurship

Makropoulos, Christos; Rozos, Evangelos; Tsoukalas, Ioannis; Plevri, Argyro; Karakatsanis, Georgios; Karagiannidis, Lazaros; Makri, Effie; Lioumis, Christos; Noutsopoulos, Constantinos; Mamais, Daniel; Rippis, C.; Lytras, Efthymios

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.07.026

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“…For example, greywater reuse in a circular layout is cost saving and environmentally friendly technology [56]. With a reliable mature treatment technology, sewer mining is an opportunity for enterprises to be an active part of the water market [57]. Wastewater treatment plants play a role in this water market, at different quality requirements and costs [58].…”

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confidence: 99%

A Market-Based Economic Instrument to Better Use Water in Agriculture

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The paper presents a market-oriented system of returnable guarantees that can be combined with tradable permits to encourage farmers to use alternative sources of water instead of the regular watering network, or to steer the farming system toward environmentally-friendly systems like low tillage and/or organic farming. Factual data from real farming were bootstrapped to test whether or not a set of farms could save water and reduce chemical input due to the higher cost of maintaining the status quo. Based on interactions between water, pesticides, fertilizers, and crops, the system of returnable guarantee determines the farmers to reduce the amount of water harvested from aquifers, generates benefits for the most environmentally-friendly farmers, and stimulate conversion to organic farming.

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A Market-Based Economic Instrument to Better Use Water in Agriculture

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“…According to Wong and Brown (2009), the three pillars of the water sensitive city are: cities as water supply catchments providing ecosystem services; and comprising water sensitive communities. Water and wastewater are also considered elements of the circular economy and circular city, focused on resource recovery and reuse (Makropoulos et al, 2018;Sgroi, Vagliasindi, & Roccaro, 2018).…”

Section: Principles Of Urban Water Sustainabilitymentioning

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Frameworks for urban water sustainability

Bell¹

2020

WIREs Water

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Integrated water management, sustainable water management, water sensitive cities, and other formulations are often presented as the latest in a series of paradigms of water management. This implies a unified approach, while urban water debates reflect a wide diversity of political, social, and technical viewpoints. Five distinct but overlapping frameworks for urban water sustainability are evident in research, policy and practice, reflecting wider environmental theory, politics, and discourse. Sustainable development is based on meeting the needs for water and sanitation of the urban poor. Ecological modernization focuses on policies to improve water efficiency and treatment through technological innovation and individual behavior change. Socio‐technical framings aim to understand how change in water systems occurs across physical and institutional scales and addresses the co‐evolution of infrastructures, cultures, and everyday practices. Urban political ecology analyses water infrastructure in terms of relationships of power, pointing to the unequal distribution of costs and benefits of urban water management for the environment and citizens. Radical ecology addresses the relationship between human culture and non‐human nature, proposing fundamental reorganization of society to solve ecological and hydrological crises. Characterizing alternate frameworks of urban water sustainability provides clarity on the underlying assumptions, methods, and politics across a diversity of approaches. Frameworks may be deployed strategically to deliver policy impact, or may reflect deeply held political or epistemological standpoints. Understanding different conceptions of urban water sustainability provides the basis for more constructive dialogue and debate about water and its role in sustainable cites. This article is categorized under: Engineering Water > Planning Water Human Water > Water Governance Water and Life > Conservation, Management, and Awareness

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“…Although a review of these technological developments falls outside the scope of this paper, it is argued that their advent is both enabled by new advances in hydroinformatics (in both the hardware and software sense) and enables interesting hydroinformatic developments in the analytics, modelling and decision contexts. An example of this interplay is evident, for example, in the case of distributed water reuse technologies termed sewer mining [37]. Here, novel treatment solutions emerged, that required advanced monitoring and control systems to become deployable in remote locations [38].…”

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“…This in turn, led to a need for modelling and optimisation tools, able to support the optimal location of sewer mining units in large sewerage networks [39]. The availability of the sewer mining technology as an intervention option, then meant that integrated models had to include them as options for decision makers [37]. This positive feedback is typical of the way hydroinformatics evolves in a dialectic relationship between the discipline and the water sector.…”

Section: New Distributed Infrastructure Deploymentmentioning

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Urban Hydroinformatics: Past, Present and Future

Makropoulos

Savić

2019

Water

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Hydroinformatics, as an interdisciplinary domain that blurs boundaries between water science, data science and computer science, is constantly evolving and reinventing itself. At the heart of this evolution, lies a continuous process of critical (self) appraisal of the discipline’s past, present and potential for further evolution, that creates a positive feedback loop between legacy, reality and aspirations. The power of this process is attested by the successful story of hydroinformatics thus far, which has arguably been able to mobilize wide ranging research and development and get the water sector more in tune with the digital revolution of the past 30 years. In this context, this paper attempts to trace the evolution of the discipline, from its computational hydraulics origins to its present focus on the complete socio-technical system, by providing at the same time, a functional framework to improve the understanding and highlight the links between different strands of the state-of-art hydroinformatic research and innovation. Building on this state-of-art landscape, the paper then attempts to provide an overview of key developments that are coming up, on the discipline’s horizon, focusing on developments relevant to urban water management, while at the same time, highlighting important legal, ethical and technical challenges that need to be addressed to ensure that the brightest aspects of this potential future are realized. Despite obvious limitations imposed by a single paper’s ability to report on such a diverse and dynamic field, it is hoped that this work contributes to a better understanding of both the current state of hydroinformatics and to a shared vision on the most exciting prospects for the future evolution of the discipline and the water sector it serves.

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Sewer-mining: A water reuse option supporting circular economy, public service provision and entrepreneurship

Cited by 66 publications

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A Market-Based Economic Instrument to Better Use Water in Agriculture

A Market-Based Economic Instrument to Better Use Water in Agriculture

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Urban Hydroinformatics: Past, Present and Future

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