Sustainability indicators for wastewater reuse systems and their application to two small systems in Rural Victoria, Australia

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 674-688

  Upadhyaya, Jyoti Kumari ^a,b   Moore, Graham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Indicators; Multi criteria decision assessment; SIs; Sustainability; Sustainability assessment; Wastewater reuse

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW; MULTICRITERIA DECISION; REUSE SYSTEMS; SIS; SMALL SYSTEMS; SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT; SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS; SYSTEM APPROACH; TREE PLANTATIONS; TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE; VICTORIA , AUSTRALIA; WASTEWATER REUSE; WASTEWATER REUSE SYSTEM;

INDICATORS (INSTRUMENTS); RATING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

WASTEWATER RECLAMATION;

DECISION ANALYSIS; DISCHARGE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GUIDELINE; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; RECYCLING; RURAL AREA; SUSTAINABILITY; WASTEWATER;

AUSTRALIA; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

EID: 84861711313     PISSN: 03151468     EISSN: 12086029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/L2012-057     Document Type: Article

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