Sustainable Water Reuse and Water Economics
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 January 2025 | Viewed by 29
Special Issue Editor
Interests: water economics; circular economy; water reuse; efficiency analysis; cost-benefit analysis; environmental economics; digitization and asset management; business models
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The issue of climate change requires us to adopt new approaches to water management to ensure the sustainability of this resource. The implementation of a strategy based on water reuse is key to ensuring its present and future availability.
In this context, the wastewater treatment sector acquires special relevance to achieve the quality of the reclaimed water according to the requirements of each use. In this way, reclaimed water becomes a new alternative water resource that ensures the availability of water while reducing the pressure on conventional water supplies, guaranteeing this resource’s sustainability.
However, for a water reuse project to be successful, a series of barriers must be overcome since reclaimed water requires adequate technology and infrastructure to reach the end users. Therefore, water reuse should be approached from a comprehensive perspective as a new available resource with significant social and environmental benefits. At the same time, it would be necessary to give a market value to reclaimed water by developing an appropriate tariff structure.
Moreover, increasing use of available digital tools will facilitate a transition towards more sustainable water management. Monitoring infrastructure, processes and consumption together with decision-making support tools will reduce energy consumption, increase process efficiency, extend the useful lives of assets and facilitate a transition towards a more sustainable water management model.
Prof. Dr. Francesc Hernández-Sancho
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- water reuse
- water economics
- reclaimed water
- water tariffs
- circular economy
- feasibility studies
- monetary valuation of environmental benefits
- life cycle costing
- efficiency analysis
- sustainability analysis
