A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
DECENTRALIZED HIERARCHICAL URBAN WATER, USED WATER, SOLIDS, AND ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
Using triple bottom line accounting and enumerating social environmental benefits has dramatically changed the assessment of the total benefits and costs. The used water has become a resource that had significant local tangible and intangible benefits that could not be easily realized by pumping water from regional water reclamation facilities located great distances from the points of reuse. This led to formulating and adopting the concepts of distributed water/stormwater/used water management, which is now being expanded to “circular economy.” When water, energy and resource recovery is an issue, the systems perform best and most efficiently when the water/stormwater/used water systems are decentralized and are integrated with the urban solids management in a synergistic system. Gray water and black water is the most common and realistic separation to be considered for the triple net‐zero cities.
DECENTRALIZED HIERARCHICAL URBAN WATER, USED WATER, SOLIDS, AND ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
Using triple bottom line accounting and enumerating social environmental benefits has dramatically changed the assessment of the total benefits and costs. The used water has become a resource that had significant local tangible and intangible benefits that could not be easily realized by pumping water from regional water reclamation facilities located great distances from the points of reuse. This led to formulating and adopting the concepts of distributed water/stormwater/used water management, which is now being expanded to “circular economy.” When water, energy and resource recovery is an issue, the systems perform best and most efficiently when the water/stormwater/used water systems are decentralized and are integrated with the urban solids management in a synergistic system. Gray water and black water is the most common and realistic separation to be considered for the triple net‐zero cities.
DECENTRALIZED HIERARCHICAL URBAN WATER, USED WATER, SOLIDS, AND ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
Novotny, Vladimir (author)
2020-02-11
24 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Centralized and decentralized urban water, wastewater & storm water systems
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