Water Reuse is a Sustainable Water Supply for UK Industry
CIWEM believes that water reuse should play an important part in achieving
more sustainable water management in the UK.
Water is essential to industry for processes such as cooling, heating,
diluting, transportation and sanitation. Businesses have financial and
environmental incentives to reduce their consumption of mains-supplied
potable water, so alongside demand management there is a need to source
alternative water supplies. Water reuse involves suitably treated wastewater
from one process being reused for a new purpose.
In a new briefing report CIWEM examines the potential benefits to society
from industry reusing water, including greater environmental flows for
freshwater wildlife and water-based recreation and the freeing-up of potable
quality water for domestic consumers. For industry, water reuse provides a
more drought-resistant water supply and potential financial savings. CIWEM
suggests that where potential sustainability concerns such as the energy
usage required to treat and distribute the water and disposing of
concentrate have been resolved, water reuse can be sustainable. CIWEM
believes it should be an integral part of a suite of water demand and supply
management measures that together can bring about more sustainable water
management in the UK. The report concludes by highlighting five factors that
are critical to facilitating sustainable water reuse in the UK.
Copies of the briefing report are available online at http://www.ciwem.org/resources/
or in hard copy format upon request.
Contact information | n/a |
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News type | Inbrief |
File link |
http://www.ciwem.org/resources/ |
Source of information | CIWEM |
Subject(s) | DRINKING WATER , DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION : COMMON PROCESSES OF PURIFICATION AND TREATMENT , POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT , SANITATION -STRICT PURIFICATION PROCESSES |
Geographical coverage | United Kingdom |
News date | 24/01/2008 |
Working language(s) | ENGLISH |