Why business as usual will not achieve SDG6 in LAC: The promise of wastewater reuse, green infrastructure and small business around WASH: Conclusions from World Water Week 2016

The Piracicaba, Capivari and Jundiaí River Basins (RB-PCJ) are located in the States of Minas Gerais and São Paulo, Brazil. By 2005, 5.8% of Brazil's General National Product-GNP was produced there. Such economic development has created a huge demand for water resources. The availability of water resources was assessed by running a dynamic systems simulation model to manage these resources in the RB-PCJ (WRM-PCJ), considering five 50-year simulations. WRM-PCJ was developed as a tool to aid the RB-PCJ Watershed Committee. The model computes water supply, demands, and contamination load from several consumers. When considering a Business-as-Usual scenario, by 2054, water demands will have increased up to 76%, 39% of the available water will come from wastewater reuse, and the contamination load will have increased by 91%. The Falkenmark Index started at 1403 m³ person-1 year-1 in 2004, ending at 734 m³ P-1 yr-1 in 2054; the Xu Sustainability Index started at 0.44 and ended at 0.20; and Keller's River Basin Development Phases started as Phase II, and ended at final Phase III, of Augmentation. The three criteria used to evaluate water resources showed that RB-PCJ is at a crucial management turning point. The WRM-PCJ performed well, and proved to be an excellent tool to assess water resources availability.

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Avoiding a Great Depression in the Era of Climate Change

A New World Post COVID-19 ◽

10.30687/978-88-6969-442-4/020 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Nicholas Bardsley

Keyword(s):

Green Infrastructure ◽

Central Banks ◽

Ecological Crisis ◽

Social Ecological ◽

Greenhouse Emissions ◽

Credit Creation ◽

Health And Social Care ◽

Public Credit ◽

Infrastructure Health ◽

Business As Usual

If loan issue falls faster than repayments, money becomes increasingly scarce, leading to deflationary pressures and unemployment. Central banks have responded by ‘quantitative easing’, a regressive form of money printing which buys off the national debt. Such credit could instead finance green infrastructure, health and social care, a basic income, and debt relief. Fiscal policy expansion which is not monetised, in contrast, results in crowding out. Given the ecological crisis caused by greenhouse emissions, the aim ought not to be resumption of business as usual. A social-ecological response to the crisis would deploy a mixture of public credit creation deployed in prioritised sectors, progressive taxation, and direct curbs on greenhouse emissions.

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MATERIAL FLOW ANALYSIS (MFA) AND ENERGY BALANCE ANALYSIS (EBA) AS TECHNICAL TOOLS FOR WASTEWATER POLLUTION CONTROL IN TEXTILE AND DYEING INDUSTRY – A CASE STUDY

Vietnam Journal of Science and Technology ◽

10.15625/2525-2518/58/3a/14356 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 58 (3A) ◽

pp. 161

Author(s):

Giang Ha Vu ◽

My Nguyen ◽

Anh Nguyen ◽

Huong Tran

Keyword(s):

Wastewater Treatment ◽

Energy Consumption ◽

Flow Analysis ◽

Wastewater Reuse ◽

Material Flow Analysis ◽

Production Lines ◽

Balance Analysis ◽

Wastewater Pollution ◽

Energy Balance Analysis ◽

Business As Usual

The textile and dyeing industry consumes a large amount of water and discharges to the environment many pollutants including dyestuffs, auxiliaries, others. In this study, a selected textile and dyeing company was representing modern factory in Vietnam. Using STAN software, the authors have quantified and analyzed the material flows of the production lines and of the main pollutants in wastewater. Comparing with “business as usual” scenario, a new scenario with treatment and reuse of wastewater has been introduced. The discharge volume of wastewater from company was about 3,608.96 m3/day (or 1,317,270.4 m3/year). Loadings of the main pollutants in wastewater as COD, TSS, T-P and T-N were 1419.95, 1571.36, 17.77 and 50.16 ton/year, respectively. One meter of produced fabric consumes 0.025 m3 of water. Energy consumption of the wastewater treatment station was analyzed by SANKEY software. The energy consumption rate was 1.695 kWh per m3 of wastewater. Reuse of wastewater could save 1,129.05 kWh per day of electricity and 1,804.48 m3 per day of fresh water to be taken from the river source. Ozonation was the most consuming energy process at the wastewater treatment station, accounting for 58.88% of total wastewater treatment energy consumption.

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Making an Impact: Entrepreneurial Approaches to Environmentalism

Planetary Improvement ◽

10.7551/mitpress/9780262037822.003.0003 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 37-62

Author(s):

Jesse Goldstein

Keyword(s):

Small Business ◽

Status Quo ◽

Wall Street ◽

Industrial Economy ◽

Planetary Scale ◽

Clean Technologies ◽

Market Disruption ◽

The Status ◽

Business As Usual ◽

Scale Of Operation

Chapter 2 contextualizes planetary improvement within the rise of business environmentalism over the latter half of the 20th century. Through the re-appropriation of well-established critiques of the industrial economy, any lingering anti-systemic orientations (as well as any interest in appropriate technologies) are recast in terms of a creative, Schumpeterian entrepreneurialism focused on deploying clean technologies at a planetary scale. The surprisingly obtuse concept of “impact” reveals an emotional and aspirational force underlying participants’ commitment to cleantech entrepreneurialism. Impact refers both to the possibility of socio-ecological disruption, or the ability to make an impact-beyond-capital, as well as the possibility of market disruption, or the ability to make an impact-as-capital. In a series of vignettes, startup entrepreneurs, consultants, and investors explain why they do what they do, how their work is entrepreneurial, and why they have not chosen to pursue four distinctly less impactful alternatives: boring industries represent participation in the status quo of a not-clean business-as-usual; small business represents a scale of operation that is inconsequential relative to planetary-scale problems; hippies represent the irrational excesses of “too much” environmentalism detached from practical business sense; and Wall Street represents a narrow focus on money-making that blinds people to important nonfinancial considerations.

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