Hydroeconomic modeling of resource recovery from wastewater: Implications for water quality and quantity management.

ABSTRACT: Emerging technologies and practices allow wastewater treatment facilities to recover valuable resources such as nutrients, energy, and recycled water during the wastewater treatment process. The ability to recover resources from wastewater introduces new tradeoffs in both water quality and quantity management. In particular, the fact that communities can obtain revenue from the sale of resources that are recovered from wastewater may help internalize the externalities of insufficient wastewater treatment. In this paper, we develop a theoretical model to characterize these tradeoffs within a hydroeconomic framework of optimal wastewater treatment with resource recovery, which is particularly well suited for applications in nutrient management. We use this model to derive analytical results

SUBMITTER: Kuwayama Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7317512 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature