水循环指数:对于当局和运营商来说,这是一个新的方法
Anabela Rebelo1, Genève Farabegoli2
1Portuguese Environment Agency, 2610-124, Amadora, Portugal; Fiber Materials and Environmental Technologies (FibEnTech-UBI), Universidade da Beira Interior, 6201-001, Covilhã, Portugal; European Union Network for the Implementation and Enforcement of Environmental Law (IMPEL), 1200, Brussels, Belgium.
Chemosphere
|March 30, 2025
概括
一个新的水循环指数 (IC) 评估了循环经济转型的水量和质量. 该指标在全球范围内应用,显示了工业用水管理的显著改善,将一家纸厂从负循环转移到中循环.
科学领域:
- 环境科学 环境科学
- 水资源管理 水资源管理
- 循环经济是一个循环经济.
背景情况:
- 传统的用水效率框架往往忽视了水量和水质的相互联系.
- 优化水的附加值和环境保护需要对水循环采取整体方法.
- 现有的指标可能无法完全捕捉工业和城市环境中水资源管理的复杂性.
研究的目的:
- 引入一个创新的指标,即水循环指数 (IC),用于评估水量和质量平衡.
- 评估该指数在各种工业部门和城市废水处理厂的多功能性.
- 证明该指数在促进最佳实践和评估环境许可转换方面的有用性.
主要方法:
- 使用多标准决策分析开发水循环指数 (IC).
- 包括11个关键因素:淡水消耗,废水排放,再利用,管理实践,危险物质,微塑料,生物多样性,营养回收,工业共生,污泥管理和激励工具.
- 应用IC到七个国家的十四个设施,在一个纸厂的案例研究.
主要成果:
- 水循环指数 (IC) 有效地将水循环分为五个级别:负面,没有,低,中,高.
- 该指数在各种工业部门和城市废水处理厂中显示出多功能性.
- 一个纸厂的案例研究表明,在修改环境许可并采用综合水资源管理后,从负循环到中循环的情况有显著改善.
结论:
- 水循环指数 (IC) 提供了一个全面的工具,用于评估和增强工业和城市环境中的水循环.
- 由IC等指标支持的综合水资源管理方法对于实现循环经济目标至关重要.
- 该研究强调了通过战略许可审查和最佳实践实施来大幅改善水资源管理绩效的潜力.
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