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Source Separation and Decentralization for Wastewater Management by Larsen, Tove A.; Udert, Kai M.; Lienert, Judit is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.
Is sewer-based wastewater treatment really the optimal technical solution in urban water management? This paradigm is increasingly being questioned. Growing water scarcity and the insight that water will be an important limiting factor for the quality of urban life are main drivers for new approaches in wastewater management. Source Separation and Decentralization for Wastewater Management sets up a comprehensive view of the resources involved in urban water management. It explores the potential of source separation and decentralization to provide viable alternatives to sewer-based urban water management. During the 1990s, several research groups started working on source-separating technologies for wastewater treatment. Source separation was not new, but had only been propagated as a cheap and environmentally friendly technology for the poor. The novelty was the discussion whether source separation could be a sustainable alternative to existing end-of-pipe systems, even in urban areas and industrialized countries. Since then, sustainable resource management and many different source-separating technologies have been investigated. The theoretical framework and also possible techno
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- Author
- Larsen, Tove A.; Udert, Kai M.; Lienert, Judit
- Publisher
- IWA Publishing
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781780401072
- Field
- Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)