Building Resilience to a Changing Climate:
A Technical Training in Water Sector Utility Decision Support
Resource Type: Literature
Climate Change and Urban Water Utilities: Challenges and Opportunities
The following P-note summarizes key points of the Working Water Note 24, Climate Change and Urban Water Utilities: Challenges and Opportunities, by Alexander Danilenko, Eric Dickson, and Michael Jacobsen. The document was published in 2010 by the Water Sector Board of the World Bank Sustainable Development Network. Readers may download the complete document from www.worldbank.org/water
Including aspects of climate change into water safety planning: Literature review of global experience and case studies from Ethiopian urban supplies
International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health
Volume 222, Issue 5, June 2019, Pages 744-755
Algae biomass cultivation in nitrogen rich biogas digestate
Lake water algae as an effective treatment method for liquid waste streams with high ammonium concentrations.
Pretreatment of brewery effluent to cultivate Spirulina sp. for nutrients removal and biomass production
Pretreatment procedure for the sustainable utilization of brewery effluent and production of algal biomass with valuable nutrients.
Nitrogen and Phosphorus Recovery from Wastewater
The article presents a review and description of technologies for recovering Nitrogen and Phosphorus from a waste water stream. The work outlines the theoretical mechanism, concepts and results of each method.
Water desalination technologies utilizing conventional and renewable energy sources
This article provides a comprehensive review on water desalination modules, operated by conventional and/or renewable energy that convert saline water into fresh water for drinking purposes.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT AND DISCHARGE – Danish Center for Environment and Energy
This report presents the status of methodological development within the sub-sector 5.D Wastewater treatment and discharge. Focus of the report is to present a COD (Chemical Oxygen Demand) mass balance for the Danish wastewater treatment plants, verifying the country-specific methane emis- sion factor, and the resulting level of methane emission from anaerobic sludge digestion, at the Danish wastewater treatment plants (WWTP). The latter requested for by the UNFCCC expert review team.
Pressure-driven demand and leakage simulation for water distribution networks
A novel steady-state network simulation model that fully integrates, into a classical hydraulic representation, pressure-driven demand and leakage at the pipe level is developed and presented here. After presenting a brief literature review about leakage modelling, the importance of a more realistic simulation model allowing for leakage analysis is demonstrated. Then, the algorithm is tested from a numerical standpoint and subjected to a convergence analysis. These analyses are performed on a case study involving two networks derived from real systems. Experimentally observed convergence/error statistics demonstrate the high robustness of the proposed pressure-driven demand and leakage simulation model.
Urban water networks as an alternative source for district heating and emergency heat-wave cooling
Three emergency cold recovery techniques are presented as a response to heat-waves: subway station cooling, ice production for individual cooling, and “heat-wave shelter” cooling in association with pavement-watering. The cold generation potential of each approach is assessed with a special consideration for mains water temperature sanitary limitations. Finally, technical obstacles and perspectives are discussed.