Wastewater: Economic asset in an urbanizing world

Wastewater: Economic Asset in an Urbanizing World

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 3-14

  Wichelns, Dennis ^a   Drechsel, Pay ^b   Qadir, Manzoor ^c  

^a International Water Management Institute ^*  (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Sri Lanka)

^c United Nations University Institute for Water   (Canada)

Author keywords

Costs and benefits; Energy; Nutrients; Resource recovery; Urbanization; Value proposition; Wastewater business; Water recycling and reuse

Indexed keywords

DEPRECIATION; ENERGY RESOURCES; INVESTMENTS; NATURAL RESOURCES; NUTRIENTS; RECOVERY; RECYCLING; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER RESOURCES;

COSTS AND BENEFITS; ENERGY; RESOURCE RECOVERY; URBANIZATION; VALUE PROPOSITION;

WATER RECYCLING;

EID: 84943250032     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-9545-6_1     Document Type: Chapter

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