Taking the "waste" out of "wastewater" for human water security and ecosystem sustainability

Science

Volumn 337, Issue 6095, 2012, Pages 681-686

  Grant, Stanley B ^a,b   Saphores, Jean Daniel ^a   Feldman, David L ^a   Hamilton, Andrew J ^c   Fletcher, Tim D ^c   Cook, Perran L M ^d   Stewardson, Michael ^b   Sanders, Brett F ^a   Levin, Lisa A ^e   Ambrose, Richard F ^f   Deletic, Ana ^d   Brown, Rebekah ^d   Jiang, Sunny C ^a   Rosso, Diego ^a   Cooper, William J ^a   Marusic, Ivan ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e CENTER FOR MARINE BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING WATER; FRESH WATER; GROUND WATER; RAIN; RUNOFF; STORM WATER;

ADOPTION CONSTRAINT; DEVELOPING WORLD; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; LITERATURE REVIEW; SECURITY; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTEWATER;

ASTHMA; AUSTRALIA; BIOMASS; CARBON FOOTPRINT; DENITRIFICATION; DESALINATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DOMESTIC WASTE; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTRICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HABITAT; HARVESTING; HETEROTROPH; HUMAN; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); LAUNDRY; MICROFILTRATION; NITRIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; REVERSE OSMOSIS; REVIEW; SANITATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; UNITED STATES; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER RECYCLING; WATER BIRD; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84864837362     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1216852     Document Type: Review

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