A state-of-the-art-review on grey water management: a survey from 2000 to 2020s

Abstract Water reuse can contribute to reducing pressures on water resources, as an important approach and practice, reducing the demand for potable water for purposes not requiring high quality water. With water resources being depleted and the demand for water increased, grey water reuse becomes more popular in order to preserve water worldwide. This paper presents a comprehensive review of all significant research and reviews existing case studies to review the present knowledge with respect to the characteristics of grey water. The main summary table covers 63 works that focus on the application of these methods to different fields of sustainable building design. Key fields are reviewed in detail: grey water, including water reuse; grey water recycling; water sustainability; building design optimization; and wastewater of several areas simultaneously, with particular focus on buildings. This research aims to introduce the review of the research that covered the grey water management. Various engineering databases, international journals, and conference proceedings were searched. International journals were searched for relevant research papers. This paper provides perspectives on grey water context in order to frame the breadth and multiple dimensions it encompasses, to summarize recent activities on selected relevant topics, and to highlight possible future directions in research and implementations.

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Role of water reuse for enhancing integrated water management in Europe and Mediterranean countries

Water Science & Technology ◽

10.2166/wst.2001.0571 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 43 (10) ◽

pp. 25-33 ◽

Cited By ~ 100

Author(s):

V. Lazarova ◽

B. Levine ◽

J. Sack ◽

G. Cirelli ◽

P. Jeffrey ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Water Management ◽

Water Resources ◽

Water Reuse ◽

Western Europe ◽

Integrated Management ◽

Wastewater Reuse ◽

Integrated Water Management ◽

Mediterranean Countries ◽

Mediterranean Regions ◽

Alternative Water

Recycling water is an important aspect of water resource and environment management policies, ensuring reliable alternative water resources, reducing environmental pollution and achieving a more sustainable form of development. This paper focuses on wastewater reuse as a strategy for integrated water management. Key economic, financial, regulatory, social and technical factors that help to make water reuse projects successful are reviewed. Selected examples from Northern and Western Europe and arid and semi-arid Mediterranean regions illustrate the contribution of wastewater reuse to integrated management of water resources.

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Comprehensive integrated water management

Water Resources: Future Perspectives, Challenges, Concepts and Necessities ◽

10.2166/9781789062144_0119 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 119-130

Author(s):

Alireza Rezaee ◽

Omid Bozorg-Haddad ◽

Ronny Brendtsson ◽

Vijay P. Singh

Keyword(s):

Water Management ◽

Water Resources ◽

Water Resources Management ◽

Integrated Management ◽

Well Being ◽

High Quality ◽

Integrated Water Management ◽

Resources Management ◽

The Social ◽

Quality Water

Abstract Improper utilization of water resources has the potential to result in reduced availability of high-quality water and adverse effects on societal development. In fact, what appears to be a serious gap in comprehensive water resources studies is the lack of a coherent approach that can link different social, economic and environmental parts within the framework of the integrated water management paradigm to extract strategies and operational plans. Comprehensive water resources management (CWRM) is a process that intends to develop and manage water, land and other resources in a way that maximizes the social and economic well-being of human societies, without compromising the integrity and sustainability of vital ecosystems and future benefits. This chapter discusses the definitions of integrated and comprehensive water resources management describing the steps of using integrated management in practical examples.

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Digitalisation for Water Sustainability: Barriers to Implementing Circular Economy in Smart Water Management

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su132111868 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (21) ◽

pp. 11868

Author(s):

Qinglan Liu ◽

Longjian Yang ◽

Miying Yang

Keyword(s):

Water Management ◽

Circular Economy ◽

Water Reuse ◽

Water System ◽

Water Sector ◽

Smart Water ◽

Fuzzy Delphi ◽

Important Approach ◽

Decentralized Wastewater Treatment System ◽

Economic Technology

“Clean water and sanitation” is listed as one of the 17 United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and implementing circular economy principles in the water sector has been widely regarded as an important approach in achieving this goal. In the era of Industry 4.0, research and practice in the digitalisation of the water sector to create a smart water system have attracted increasing attention. Despite the growing interest, limited research has been devoted to how digital technologies might enhance circularity. In practice, smart water systems often fail to promote circularity in such aspects as water reuse and resources recovery. This paper aims to identify the main barriers to implementing circularity in the smart water management system in Zhejiang, China. The research adopts a mixed research method that includes a literature review to identify the potential barriers from the existing studies, a case study to determine the most critical barriers in practice, and a fuzzy Delphi method to reach a consensus on the crucial barriers. The research identified 22 main barriers to implementing circular economy in smart water management. The barriers are divided into three categories: infrastructure and economic, technology, and institution and governance. The results show that the barriers related to recycling technologies, digital technology know-how, and the lack of CE awareness raise the most concern. Our findings also indicate that experts are interested in the decentralized wastewater treatment system. This research provides significant insights that practitioners, researchers, and policymakers can use in developing and implementing digital-based CE strategies to reduce water scarcity and pollution.

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The potential of agro-industrial clusters for the introduction of market mechanisms for the management and financing of water resources in Uzbekistan

Melioration and Water Management ◽

10.32962/0235-2524-2021-1-34-39 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 0 (1) ◽

pp. 34-39

Author(s):

Victor Dukhovniy ◽

Sh. Muminov ◽

N. Mirzaev

Keyword(s):

Water Management ◽

Water Resources ◽

Water Use ◽

Industrial Clusters ◽

High Quality ◽

Market Mechanisms ◽

Potential Source ◽

Quality Water ◽

Water Management Services ◽

Management Services

In order to implement market principles and mechanisms in the field of management and financing of agriculture and water resources in Uzbekistan, organizational forms, regulations, methods and tools of management in this area are being radically improved. Agro-industrial clusters are a potential source of financing for water management organizations, they have a great potential for providing high-quality water management services and introducing paid water use based on market mechanisms.

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Os recursos “não convencionais” na gestão da água: ensinamentos da experiência espanhola / “Unconventional” resources in water management: teachings from the Spanish experience

Caderno de Geografia ◽

10.5752/p.2318-2962.2018v28n53p274-300 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 28 (53) ◽

pp. 274-300

Author(s):

Antônio Pereira Magalhães Júnior

Keyword(s):

Water Management ◽

Water Resources ◽

Water Reuse ◽

Domestic Water ◽

Management Framework ◽

Unconventional Resources ◽

Treated Effluent ◽

Management Experience ◽

Treated Effluents ◽

Mediterranean Conditions

O quadro mediterrâneo vigente na maior parte da Espanha traz importantes desafios associados à irregularidade pluviométrica e às frequentes estiagens. Os “desequilíbrios” entre a “Espanha seca”, mediterrânea, e a “Espanha úmida”, atlântica, foram usados como argumentos para justificar o forte e tradicional viés das políticas hidráulicas de obras para o aumento da oferta de água. Porém, a partir da Diretiva Quadro da Água, aprovada no ano 2000, o país se vê confrontado com os desafios de “modernização” e implementação de um quadro de gestão com perspectiva mais ecológica e menos estruturalista. Neste sentido, a valorização dos recursos hídricos “não convencionais”vem sendo uma das estratégias mais fomentadas para o atendimento das demandas, particularmente a dessalinização e a utilização de efluentes tratados. Este artigo apresenta as características, os avanços, desafios e críticas à experiência espanhola de utilização de recursos hídricos “não convencionais”, incluindo seus referenciais históricos, institucionais e legais. Apesar do imporante desenvolvimento nas décadas recentes, estes recursos não ficam isentos de críticas. As principais envolvem os custos da água dessalinizada e a falta de incentivo às iniciativas de uso de efluentes tratados e reuso de águas domésticas. Mesmo com um contexto histórico e geográfico particular, o cenário espanhol pode fornecer referenciais para refexão úteis à sociedade brasileira.Palavras-chave: Experiência espanhola de gestão da água, Recursos hídricos não convencionais, Dessalinização.AbstractThe Mediterranean conditions present in most part of Spain establish major challenges associated with rainfall irregularity and frequent droughts. The "imbalances" between "dry Spain", Mediterranean, and "wet Spain", Atlantic, were adopted as argument to justify the strong and traditional bias of the hydraulic policies for the water supply increase. However, since the Water Framework Directive, adopted in 2000, the country faces the challenges of "modernizing" and implementing a management framework with a greener and less structuralist perspective. In this sense, the valorization of “unconventional” water resources has been one of the most promoted strategies in the country for meeting the demands, particularly the desalination and the treated effluents use. This paper presents the characteristics, challenges, advances and critics to the Spanish experience of "unconventional" water resources use, including historical, institutional and legal references. Despite the important development in recent decades, these resources are not without criticism. The main ones involve the costs of desalinated water and the lack of public incentive to treated effluent use and domestic water reuse. Even with a specific historical and geographical context, the Spanish scenario may provide useful references to the Brazilian society.Keywords: Spanish water management experience, Unconventional water resources, Desalination.

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New advanced designed systems to ensure safeguard of the territory and preservation of water resources for irrigation

ECONOMIA AGRO-ALIMENTARE ◽

10.3280/ecag2-2020oa10413 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-19

Author(s):

Cinalberto Bertozzi ◽

Fabio Paglione

Keyword(s):

Water Management ◽

Water Resources ◽

Drainage Basin ◽

Land Reclamation ◽

Land Area ◽

Water Board ◽

Management Schemes ◽

Innovative Techniques ◽

River Po ◽

Crop Irrigation

The Burana Land-Reclamation Board is an interregional water board operating in three regions and five provinces. The Burana Land-Reclamation Board operates over a land area of about 250,000 hectares between the Rivers Secchia, Panaro and Samoggia, which forms the drainage basin of the River Panaroand part of the Burana-Po di Volano, from the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines to the River Po. Its main tasks are the conservation and safeguarding of the territory, with particular attention to water resources and how they are used, ensuring rainwater drainage from urban centres, avoiding flooding but ensuringwater supply for crop irrigation in the summer to combat drought. Since the last century the Burana Land-Reclamation Board has been using innovative techniques in the planning of water management schemes designed to achieve the above aims, improving the management of water resources while keeping a constant eye on protection of the environment.

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MODERN HYDROGRAPHIC AND WATER MANAGEMENT ZONING OF UKRAINE’S TERRITORY – IMPLEMENTATION OF THE WFD-2000/60/EC

Proceedings of the XXVII Conference of the Danubian Countries on Hydrological Forecasting and Hydrological Bases of Water Management ◽

10.15407/uhmi.conference.01.23 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

V.K. Khilchevskyi ◽

Keyword(s):

Water Management ◽

Water Resources ◽

River Basins ◽

River Basin Management ◽

The Black Sea ◽

Main Function ◽

River Basin Management Plans ◽

Management Plans ◽

The Crimea ◽

Sea Coast

In contrast to the hydrological and hydrochemical zoning, hydrographic and water management zoning of Ukraine (2016) was created on a basin basis, taking into account the boundaries of river basins, and not physiographic zoning. The main function of hydrographic and water management zoning is water management. Primary is hydrographic zoning, and water management - based on it. The description of modern hydrographic zoning of the territory of Ukraine, approved in 2016 by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and included in the Water Code of Ukraine is given. Hydrographic zoning is carried out for the development and implementation of river basin management plans. On the territory of Ukraine nine areas of river basins are allocated: Dnipro; Dnister; Danube; Southern Bug; Don; Vistula; rivers of the Crimea; rivers of the Black Sea coast; rivers of the Azov Sea coast 13 sub-basins are allocated in four river basins district. The water management zoning is described - the division of hydrographic units into water management areas, which is carried out for the development of water management balances. In the regions of the river basins in the territory of Ukraine allocated 132 water management areas, 59 of which are located in the Dnipro basin. About 9,000 bodies of surface water allocated for monitoring in Ukraine. Approved zoning is the implementation of the provisions of the EU Water Framework Directive 2000/60 / EC in the management of water resources in Ukraine. Modern hydrographic and water management zoning of the territory of Ukraine approximates the management of water resources of the state to European requirements.

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Water Governance and Management in Indus Basin - Challenges & Threats

Studies of Applied Economics ◽

10.25115/eea.v38i3.3601 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 38 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Marium Sara Minhas Bandeali

Keyword(s):

Water Management ◽

Civil Society ◽

Water Resources ◽

Water Policy ◽

Water Governance ◽

Sustainable Use ◽

Water Security ◽

Sampling Technique ◽

The State ◽

Indus Basin

Water governance and management are important challenges for the River Indus Basin in Pakistan. Water governance refers to social, political and economic factors that influence water management. The water scarcity and water security are a major concern for the state to control its water resources. The study aims to give Sindh water policy by exploring the challenges to Indus Basin in managing water resources and to identify opportunities Indus Basin can look to improve water management. Interviews were conducted from water experts and analysts having 5 years’ experience or more in the water sector of Pakistan through a semi-structured self-developed questionnaire using purposive sampling technique and transcripts were analyzed using thematic content analysis. The findings show that increasing population, climatic change and rising demand of water are major challenges Indus is facing and Indus with time is getting water-scarce therefore need strong institutions, civil society and legislatures to ensure equitable distribution of water and maintain the ecosystem. The study emphasizes that water governance and management are necessary for sustainable use of water. Pakistan, the water stress country needs to address ‘governance’ at a wider scale to solve problems in the Indus Basin for the livelihood of people. The research will benefit the state, water experts, institutions as well as civil society to promote efficient use of water in Indus Basin.

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