Impacts of River Water Consumption on Aquatic Biodiversity in Life Cycle Assessment—A Proposed Method, and a Case Study for Europe

2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 3236-3244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danielle M. Tendall ◽  
Stefanie Hellweg ◽  
Stephan Pfister ◽  
Mark A. J. Huijbregts ◽  
Gérard Gaillard
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
River Water ◽  
Water Consumption ◽  
Aquatic Biodiversity

scholarly journals Quantifying net water consumption of Norwegian hydropower reservoirs and related aquatic biodiversity impacts in Life Cycle Assessment

2019 ◽  
Vol 76 ◽  
pp. 36-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Dorber ◽  
Kim Rainer Mattson ◽  
Odd Terje Sandlund ◽  
Roel May ◽  
Francesca Verones
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Water Consumption ◽  
Aquatic Biodiversity ◽  
Hydropower Reservoirs

scholarly journals Water Consumption and Environmental Impact of Multifamily Residential Buildings: A Life Cycle Assessment Study

Buildings ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Mehzabeen Mannan ◽  
Sami G. Al-Ghamdi
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Water Use ◽  
Water Consumption ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Residential Building ◽  
Climate Zone

Water use in buildings accounts for a large share in global freshwater consumption where research on the impacts of life cycle water use receive little or no attention. Moreover, there is very limited knowledge regarding such impacts that focus on the life cycle emissions from water consumption in building environments in the world’s most water-stressed countries. Hence, this study attempted to quantify the environmental impacts of operational water use in a multi-family residential building through a life cycle assessment (LCA). A small part of a Middle Eastern country, Doha (Qatar), has been selected for the primary assessment, while water-use impact in Miami (Florida) was chosen as a second case study, as both locations fall into similar climate zone according to ASHRAE Climate Zone Map. The LCA score indicated much higher impacts in the Doha case study compared to Miami. The variation in the result is mainly attributed to the raw water treatment stage in Doha, which involves energy-intensive thermal desalination. Again, relative comparison of the annual water and electricity use impacts for the modeled building was performed at the final stage for both locations. Water use was attributable for 18% of the environmental impacts in Miami, while this value increased to 35% in Doha. This initial assembled LCA result will be beneficial to both water authorities and building research communities in establishing more sustainable water use policies for specific regions/countries that will ultimately benefit the overall building environment.

scholarly journals Water Footprint and Life Cycle Assessment: The Complementary Strengths of Analyzing Global Freshwater Appropriation and Resulting Local Impacts

Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 803
Author(s):  
Winnie Gerbens-Leenes ◽  
Markus Berger ◽  
John Anthony Allan
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Water Consumption ◽  
Water Footprint ◽  
Local Impacts ◽  
Global Water

Considering that 4 billion people are living in water-stressed regions and that global water consumption is predicted to increase continuously [...]

scholarly journals Water footprint assessment of gold refining: Case study based on life cycle assessment

2021 ◽  
Vol 122 ◽  
pp. 107319
Author(s):  
Wei Chen ◽  
Jinglan Hong ◽  
Chengxin Wang ◽  
Lu Sun ◽  
Tianzuo Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Water Footprint ◽  
Gold Refining

Community-scale composting for food waste: A life-cycle assessment-supported case study

2020 ◽  
Vol 261 ◽  
pp. 121220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zi Xiang Keng ◽  
Siewhui Chong ◽  
Chee Guan Ng ◽  
Nur Izzati Ridzuan ◽  
Svenja Hanson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Food Waste

Environmental life cycle assessment of alternative fuels for city buses: A case study in Oujda city, Morocco

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faissal Jelti ◽  
Amine Allouhi ◽  
Sami G. Al-Ghamdi ◽  
Rachid Saadani ◽  
Abdelmajid Jamil ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Alternative Fuels ◽  
Environmental Life Cycle Assessment

scholarly journals Insights from combining techno-economic and life cycle assessment – a case study of polyphenol extraction from red wine pomace

2021 ◽  
Vol 167 ◽  
pp. 105318
Author(s):  
Giovanna Croxatto Vega ◽  
Joshua Sohn ◽  
Juliën Voogt ◽  
Morten Birkved ◽  
Stig Irving Olsen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Red Wine ◽  
Polyphenol Extraction
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