Sustainable wastewater management: Life Cycle Assessment of conventional and source-separating urban sanitation systems

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1555-1562

  Remy, C ^a   Jekel, M ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Environmental evaluation; Life Cycle Assessment; Source separation; Sustainable sanitation; Wastewater management

Indexed keywords

WATER;

AIR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL RELEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; PROCESS MODEL; SOIL; URBAN AREA; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

SANITARY ENGINEERING; WATER POLLUTANTS;

EID: 57149103497     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2008.533     Document Type: Article

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