Sustaining Water Resources: Environmental and Economic Impact
| Autor: | Naty Barak, Brian R. Gibney, Paul Westerhof, Diana Bauer, F. Todd Davidson, Spiro D. Alexandratos, Susan S. Hubbard, Hessy L. Taft |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Water-energy nexus
Sanitation Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment business.industry Natural resource economics General Chemical Engineering Water supply 02 engineering and technology General Chemistry 010402 general chemistry 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology 01 natural sciences 0104 chemical sciences Watershed management Water resources Water conservation Agriculture Environmental Chemistry Business Economic impact analysis 0210 nano-technology |
| Zdroj: | ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 7:2879-2888 |
| ISSN: | 2168-0485 |
| Popis: | Water is essential to human health and economic development due to its utilization in sanitation, agriculture, and energy. Supplying water to an expanding world population requires simultaneous consideration of multiple societal sectors competing for limited resources. Water conservation, supply augmentation, distribution, and treatment of contaminants must work in concert to ensure water sustainability. Water is linked to other sectors, and the quantity and quality of water resources are changing. The efficient use of water in agriculture, the largest user of water worldwide, via drip irrigation is described as is the use of energy-intensive reverse osmosis to supplement freshwater supplies. Efforts to manage watersheds and model their responses to severe weather events are discussed along with efforts to improve the predictability of their function. The regional competition for water resources impacts both energy and water supply reliability, which requires that nations balance both for sustainable econ... |
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