Environmental and financial life cycle impact assessment of drinking water production at Waternet

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 471-476

  Barrios, Ramiro ^a   Siebel, Maarten ^a   van der Helm, Alex ^b,c   Bosklopper, Karin ^d   Gijzen, Huub ^a  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL HASKONINGDHV   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d Waternet   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Drinking water; Environmental impact; Financial impact; LCA; LCC

Indexed keywords

BIOACTIVITY; COST ACCOUNTING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LIFE CYCLE; WATER TREATMENT;

FINANCIAL IMPACT; GREEN ENERGY; SODIUM HYDROXIDE; WATERNET;

POTABLE WATER;

EID: 36049035068     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2006.07.052     Document Type: Article

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