This volume offers background and a variety of cases dealing with the concept of water footprint. The first chapter provides an introduction to the concept of water footprint and how it can be used to evaluate efforts toward sustainability, conservation, and environmental cleanup and remediation. Special focus is given to wastewater treatment from housing and construction, agriculture, and other industries. This book will be useful to academics, professionals, and students who are striving to make industrial use of water and cleanup of byproducts more sustainable.
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1 Introduction to the Book.- 2 Industrial Grey Water Footprint.- 3 Assessing the Sustainability of Agricultural Water Use Based on Water Footprints of Wheat and Rice Production.- 4 Water Footprint (WFP) in Hydropower Plants Using Observed Meteorological Datasets.- 5 Evaluation of the Water Footprint of the Use and Maintenance of Buildings.- 6 Sustainable Brine Management and Carbon Dioxide Capture.
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Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu is currently the Chief Sustainability Officer at Green Story Inc, Canada, based out of Hong Kong. He earned his Ph D from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and is a renowned expert in the areas of Environmental Sustainability in Textiles & Clothing Supply Chain, Product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Product Carbon Footprint Assessment (PCF) in various industrial sectors. He has five years of industrial experience in textile manufacturing, research and development and textile testing and over a decade’s of experience in life cycle assessment (LCA), carbon and ecological footprints assessment of various consumer products. He has published more than 100 research publications, written numerous book chapters and authored/edited over 190 books in the areas of Carbon Footprint, Recycling, Environmental Assessment, Life Cycle Assessment and Environmental Sustainability.
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