Resource Recovery and Beautiful Clean Water: Innovation to Create Environmental Impact on a Watershed Scale

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Diane Taniguchi-Dennis
2005 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. Tang ◽  
B.A. Engel ◽  
B.C. Pijanowski ◽  
K.J. Lim

1999 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 93-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Rossi Pisa ◽  
F. Preti ◽  
M. Rossi ◽  
F. Ventura ◽  
B. Mazzanti

The study of the environmental impact of water erosion, chemicals and nutrient transport by runoff water is very important to protect soil and water quality. It is possible to find much literature on this topic, but the survey data lack uniformity and represent many different agronomic or natural environments. This is due to the wide range of parameters involved in these phenomena, such as soil and geomorphologic characteristics, tillage and crop management, nutrients and pesticides used. Results of some experiments are presented in this paper. A comparison of water, soil and chemical losses has been made between experimental data and modeling outputs, both at plot and at watershed scale. The findings indicate that monitoring and modeling are two complementary instruments, both necessary for the analysis of agrochemical transport phenomena, and that the proposed methodology is useful to evaluate the related environmental impact under different scenarios.


Author(s):  
A. Robles ◽  
Joaquin Serralta ◽  
Nuria Martí ◽  
Jose Ferrer ◽  
Aurora Seco

In a paradigm shift towards a sustainable society based on the Circular Economy, wastewater treatments are rapidly evolving towards simultaneous recovery and reuse of clean water, renewable energy, and nutrients....


2009 ◽  
Vol 73 (9) ◽  
pp. 747-751 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazue Ichino Takahashi ◽  
Jiro Nakamura ◽  
Kazumi Otabe ◽  
Masaaki Tsuruoka ◽  
Yasunari Matsuno ◽  
...  

2002 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 219-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reed W. Super ◽  
David K. Gordon

The withdrawal of water from the nation’s waterways to cool industrial facilities kills billions of adult, juvenile, and larval fish each year. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) promulgation of categorical rules defining the best technology available to minimize adverse environmental impact (AEI) could standardize and improve the control of such mortality. However, in an attempt to avoid compliance costs, industry has seized on the statutory phrase “adverse environmental impact” to propose significant procedural and substantive hurdles and layers of uncertainty in the permitting of cooling-water intakes under the Clean Water Act. These include, among other things, a requirement to prove that a particular facility threatens the sustainability of an aquatic population as a prerequisite to regulation. Such claims have no foundation in science, law, or the English language. Any nontrivial aquatic mortality constitutes AEI, as the EPA and several state and federal regulatory agencies have properly acknowledged. The focus of scientists, lawyers, regulators, permit applicants, and other interested parties should not be on defining AEI, but rather on minimizing AEI, which requires minimization of impingement and entrainment.


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