Global and local health burden trade-off through the hybridisation of quantitative microbial risk assessment and life cycle assessment to aid water management

Water Research

Volumn 79, Issue , 2015, Pages 26-38

  Kobayashi, Yumi ^a   Peters, Greg M ^a,b   Ashbolt, Nicholas J ^a,c   Heimersson, Sara ^b   Svanström, Magdalena ^b   Khan, Stuart J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carbon footprint; Environmental impact; Water recycling; Water treatment

Indexed keywords

CARBON FOOTPRINT; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HEALTH; HEALTH RISKS; MERGING; RECYCLING; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RECYCLING; WATER TREATMENT;

COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT; DISABILITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); QUANTITATIVE MICROBIAL RISK ASSESSMENT; QUANTITATIVE MICROBIAL RISK ASSESSMENT (QMRA); QUANTITATIVE RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER RECYCLING PROJECTS;

LIFE CYCLE;

CARBON FOOTPRINT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HEALTH IMPACT; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECYCLING; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRADE-OFF; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; CAMPYLOBACTER; CLIMATE CHANGE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HYBRIDIZATION; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; MEMBRANE FILTER; NONHUMAN; OZONE DEPLETION; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHOTOOXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE MICROBIAL RISK ASSESSMENT; RENEWABLE ENERGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVER; ROTAVIRUS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WIND POWER; AUSTRALIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PROCEDURES; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; RECYCLING; STANDARDS; WASTE WATER; WATER SUPPLY;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; SYDNEY [NEW SOUTH WALES];

FRESH WATER; WASTE WATER;

CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; FRESH WATER; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEW SOUTH WALES; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; RECYCLING; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROTAVIRUS; WASTE WATER; WATER PURIFICATION; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84929457448     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2015.03.015     Document Type: Article

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