Life-cycle assessment of common water main materials in water distribution networks

Journal of Hydroinformatics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 346-357

  Herstein, L M ^a   Filion, Y R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Design; Environmental sustainability; Industrial supply chain; Life cycle analysis; Material selection optimization; Water distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959788299     PISSN: 14647141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/hydro.2010.127     Document Type: Article

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