Publication Date:
2012-08-11
Description:
Humans create vast quantities of wastewater through inefficiencies and poor management of water systems. The wasting of water poses sustainability challenges, depletes energy reserves, and undermines human water security and ecosystem health. Here we review emerging approaches for reusing wastewater and minimizing its generation. These complementary options make the most of scarce freshwater resources, serve the varying water needs of both developed and developing countries, and confer a variety of environmental benefits. Their widespread adoption will require changing how freshwater is sourced, used, managed, and priced.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Grant, Stanley B -- Saphores, Jean-Daniel -- Feldman, David L -- Hamilton, Andrew J -- Fletcher, Tim D -- Cook, Perran L M -- Stewardson, Michael -- Sanders, Brett F -- Levin, Lisa A -- Ambrose, Richard F -- Deletic, Ana -- Brown, Rebekah -- Jiang, Sunny C -- Rosso, Diego -- Cooper, William J -- Marusic, Ivan -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Aug 10;337(6095):681-6. doi: 10.1126/science.1216852.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, E4130 Engineering Gateway, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-2175, USA. sbgrant@uci.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22879506" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Agriculture
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Biodiversity
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*Conservation of Natural Resources
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Developed Countries
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Developing Countries
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Drinking Water
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*Ecosystem
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*Fresh Water
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Humans
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*Recycling
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*Sewage
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Waste Disposal, Fluid
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Water Pollution
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Water Purification
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Water Quality
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*Water Supply
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
