The National Reference Based on WaCCliM Roadmap for Water and Wastewater Utilities (WWUs) Towards Carbon Neutrality in Thailand presents utility managers with an approach to address their most pressing challenges, while reducing carbon emissions through measures that either have a return on investment through energy or water savings, or that correspond to planned investments as part of the asset management plan to maintain or improve their services.
Resource Type: Guidelines
Effective Utility Management – A Primer for Water and Wastewater Utilities
The Effective Utility Management: A Primer for Water and Wastewater Utilities (“Primer”) is designed to help water and wastewater utility managers make informed decisions and practical, systematic changes to achieve excellence in utility performance in the face of everyday challenges and long-term needs for the utility and the community it serves. This document distills the expertise and experience of utility leaders into a framework intended to help utilities identify and address their most pressing needs through an incremental, continual improvement management approach.
East Asia and Pacific Wastewater to Energy Processes: a Technical Note for Utility Managers in EAP countries
The objective of this technical note is to inform utility managers and technical decision makers in East Asian countries about appropriate technologies available for wastewater treatment with energy recovery processes.
POLICY GUIDANCE MANUAL ON WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT – WITH A SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON DECENTRALIZED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEMS
This manual provides a step-by-step guide on development and implementation DEWATS in developing countries of the region with a set of financial schemes, market opportunities, investment and potential impacts.
A guide for the selection of municipal wastewater treatment processes to facilitate decision making, with a focus on reducing greenhouse gas emissions (in Spanish)
This Selection Guide facilitates preliminary decision making regarding the most appropriate process to treat municipal wastewater. This Process Selection Guide was designed to support the evaluation of sanitation projects from a Climate Change Mitigation approach that is conducive to Sustainable Development, although without neglecting criteria for compliance with Mexican environmental regulations and technical or economic feasibility.
This Descriptive Brochure and its supplementary MS Excel © book are supporting tools to evaluate the possibilities of treatment trains in municipal wastewater treatment plants. The recommended processes and their combinations reduce gaseous emissions maximally and show technical-economic viability.
Guia para la optimización energética en sistemas de tratamiento de agua (Guideline for energy optimization in water treatment systems)
The document is a guideline and tool for water utilities to evaluate, identify and implement measures for reducing the energy consumption in their treatment systems.
Recycling and Reuse of Treated Wastewater in Urban India
The document focuses on identifying the economic, financial and environmental benefits of wastewater recycling from the perspective of public spending. Also provides information on the evolution and current practices of wastewater recycling internationally and the international and national regulatory and policy frameworks that guide wastewater recycling. It presents possible strategies for city and state planners and policy makers to initiate the discourse on wastewater recycling and reuse.
The Roadmap to a Low-Carbon Urban Water Utility
An international guide to the WaCCliM approach
The Roadmap to a Low-Carbon Urban Water Utility presents utility managers with an approach to address their most pressing challenges, while reducing carbon emissions through
measures that either have a return on investment through energy or water savings, or that correspond to planned investments as part of the asset management plan to maintain or improve their services. Utilities adopting this approach are contributing to a carbon-neutral future, by instigating a change of mind-set, not only in urban water management but also by inspiring all other urban services through sharing the risks and the urgency to act to avoid aggravated impacts of climate change, of which water utilities are among the first victims: water scarcity, flooding and deteriorated water quality
Biogas valorization and efficient energy management – Best practices for improved sludge digestion
This review covers state-of-the-art technologies for advanced anaerobic digestion of municipal sewage sludge. It is based on an extensive review of literature and available data, focussing on processes which have been realized in full-scale plants. The review includes information on single-stage mesophilic digestion, thermophilic digestion, temperature-phased digestion, high-load digestion and other process modifications, as well as mechanical, thermal, chemical, and biological disintegration methods. All processes are described with a set of key performance indicators such as degradation rate of volatile solids, biogas yield, return load, effects on dewatering, and capital costs.
From Data Management to Greenhouse Gas Monitoring
This factsheet provides guidance on how to use the ECAM tool to monitor total greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption.