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The status of de facto potable reuse - A national reconnaissance of Germany
Prof. Dr. Jörg E. Drewes | Technical University of Munich | Germany
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Prof. Dr. Jörg E. Drewes | Technical University of Munich | Germany
This comprehensive study is the first to quantify nationwide the relative contribution of wastewater effluents to streams under varying discharge conditions and to provide an impact assessment of de facto reuse for downstream drinking water abstraction via bank filtration or aquifer recharge for selected case study areas in Germany.
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Risk Management for Drinking Water Production in a Partially Closed Water Cycle – The Berlin Case
Dr. Gesche Grützmacher | Berliner Wasserbetriebe | Germany
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Dr. Gesche Grützmacher | Berliner Wasserbetriebe | Germany
Sebastian Schimmelpfennig | Berliner Wasserbetriebe | Germany
G Lorenzen | Berliner Wasserbetriebe | Germany
D Petersohn | Berliner Wasserbetriebe | Germany
J Feddern | Berliner Wasserbetriebe | Germany
A substantial part of Berlin’s drinking water is produced from groundwater influenced by surface water with relevant shares of treated waste water. Thus, risk management needs to take into account the performance of different barriers towards waste-water-related contaminants. This paper describes the approach of Berliner Wasserbetriebe to manage the risks related to the semi-closed water cycle.
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Safe wastewater reuse in the United Arab Emirates; safety assessment from concept to realisation
Dr. Patrick Smeets | KWR Watercycle Research Institute | Netherlands
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Dr. Patrick Smeets | KWR Watercycle Research Institute | Netherlands
Milou Dingemans | KWR Watercycle Research Institute | Netherlands
Michael Stenzel | TANQIA SIYANA | United Arab Emirates
Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates wants to reuse wastewater for irrigation. We've developed a stepwise approach to assess safety from the first concept, through evaluation and inspection of the existing system, the technical designs, validation, verification up to the final operation under a sanitation safety plan. It provides a an example how to approach safe water reuse, especially in a context where national guidelines have not been established.
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Water reuse as a sustainable water scarcity risk reduction measure: Integrating risk and sustainability assessment frameworks
Andrea Mueller | Technische Universität Dresden and United Nations University -Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources (UNU-FLORES) | Germany
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Andrea Mueller | Technische Universität Dresden and United Nations University -Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources (UNU-FLORES) | Germany
Dr. Tamara Avellan | United Nations University -Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources (UNU-FLORES) | Germany
Jochen Schanze | Technische Universität Dresden and Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development | Germany
The following abstract outlines the conceptual integration of risk and sustainability assessment frameworks to evaluate water reuse measures. The aim is to explore how risk and sustainability assessment can be integrated to tackle water reuse as a means of risk reduction under conditions of water scarcity.