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Commercial, Institutional, and Industrial Water Use
Published in Abbas Yari, Saeid Eslamian, Faezeh Eslamian, Urban and Industrial Water Conservation Methods, 2020
To ensure strategies, optimize water, and minimize costs, evaluating water use and setting goals are essential. Identifying opportunities to improve the water use efficiency of processes usually involves the deployment of different water management strategies such as water audits, process integration, and the use of advanced water treatment technologies. Water management strategies provide useful insights into any possible process changes that may lead to an increase in water use efficiency and eventually water savings. A water audit is carried out to measure the quantity and quality of water inputs and outputs within a defined boundary, consisting of a single process or set of processes assumed to be operating at a steady state. One of the most useful outcomes of a water audit is the creation of a water flow diagram – an easy to understand representation of usually complex process systems. A water flow diagram offers an idea of how much water is being used by each process, including the volume and quality of the wastewater being generated (Aganda et al. 2013).
The Science–Policy–Stakeholder Interface in Water Management: Lessons Learned and the Challenges Ahead
Published in Geoffrey D. Gooch, Per Stålnacke, Science, Policy and Stakeholders in Water Management, 2010
Geoffrey D. Gooch, Per Stålnacke
Scientific tools and models have an important role to play in water management and its importance has increased during the last decade. For example, in Europe, an increased demand for scientific tools in connection to the implementation of the WFD can be observed. More specifically, accurate quantification of source emissions, river pollution loads and their impact upon mitigation measures, etc. are major challenges facing the research community as managers and policy-makers increasingly rely on outputs from river basin models when evaluating environmental changes and management actions. In a science–policy context, this relates to both the selection of appropriate tools and ensuring that the management scenarios and mitigation measures are actually relevant.
Application of IoT in Water Supply Management
Published in Vijay Kumar, Mangey Ram, Predictive Analytics, 2021
Reshu Agarwal, Adarsh Dixit, Shylaja Vinaykumar Karatangi
Water management strategies and practices address the following aims:Reduce wastewater, which is used in large amounts in areas such as manufacturing, irrigation, and power generation. This means the implementation of high-tech activities, such as precision planting, intelligent irrigation, and water metering, in real time.Improve the quality of the water and avoid hazardous waste contamination and environmental pollutants, such as acidification. Companies use sensor technology for real-time monitoring and control to enhance and preserve water quality.Boost the quality of water facilities, such as water tanks, treatment plants, wastewater collection centers and distribution mains. Using IoT and asset management data solutions, businesses can keep abreast of important measurements, such as water pressure, temperature, and velocity, conduct predictive maintenance, and prevent breakage and downtimes.Using smart water management systems fitted with leakage and moisture sensors to enforce leakage control. Eliminating the harm caused by yearly leakage and leakage management is vital to saving water supplies and budgets.Practice monitoring of consumption to maximize and keep under control the use of water supplies at various levels – in households, industries, regions, or the entire world.
India’s water management debate: is the ‘civil society’ making it everlasting?
Published in International Journal of Water Resources Development, 2018
M. Dinesh Kumar, Chetan M. Pandit
Water management involves complex considerations of physical, technical, social, economic, legal, institutional and cultural aspects, and hence policy making in that field is also going to be a difficult process. The appropriateness of these policies depends largely on the evidence on which they are based. Here, both quantity and quality matter. The quantity of evidence concerns the number of regions and localities from which it is collected. The quality of evidence concerns the scientific rigor with which it is analyzed. Many times in the recent past, the decision to pursue a particular paradigm in water management was not supported by sufficient scientific evidence of its effectiveness but by a simplistic understanding of the underlying hydrological and geohydrological processes (Perry, 2013). Hence, there is a dilemma in policy circles. The government’s failure to use the mounting evidence of the effectiveness of the paradigms and strategies it followed in the water sector over the past 6–7 decades to achieve food security, water security and rural development, and subject the non-constructive alternatives proposed by CS to rigorous scrutiny, has also added to this dilemma.
A comprehensive review on water stable metal-organic frameworks for large-scale preparation and applications in water quality management based on surveys made since 2015
Published in Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, 2022
R. Y. Li, Z. S. Wang, Z. Y. Yuan, Constance Van Horne, Viatcheslav Freger, M. Lin, R. K. Cai, J. P. Chen
Over the past decades, a shortage of fresh water has become a global challenge due to the overuse of water resources, anthropogenic activities and rapid increases in population (Chen, 2012). In fact, more than one third of the world’s population lacks access to clean drinking water. Therefore, water treatment, water saving, and recovery of water from wastewater or used water sources have become an important factor of robust water management systems.
Water management practices in Euro-Mediterranean hotels and resorts
Published in International Journal of Water Resources Development, 2023
Esther Mendoza, Giuliana Ferrero, Yness March Slokar, Xavier Amores, Arianna Azzellino, Gianluigi Buttiglieri
Basic water management strategies included water-saving devices and reuse of (waste)water. A total of 22.2% of the total sample size had not installed any water-saving device, 43.2% had implemented at least one water-saving measure and 37.0% had implemented from one to three measures (Figure 5a). Among these, the most frequent devices were water-saving showers and dual-flush toilets (Figure 5b).