Review
Engineering, Environmental
Michael A. Jahne, Mary E. Schoen, Anya Kaufmann, Brian M. Pecson, Adam Olivieri, Sybil Sharvelle, Anita Anderson, Nicholas J. Ashbolt, Jay L. Garland
Summary: In this work, the authors compare and synthesize the log10-reduction targets (LRTs) for pathogens in onsite non-potable water systems (ONWS) to inform the selection of pathogen LRTs. The results show that there were minor differences in LRTs for human enteric viruses and parasitic protozoa between 2017 and 2021 efforts, despite differences in pathogen characterization methods. The greatest differences were observed in stormwater due to the use of municipal wastewater data and different reference pathogens.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Shufeng Lin, Wenhai Chu, An Liu
Summary: Reclaimed water and stormwater are important alternative water sources for mitigating water resource shortage. They have different characteristics of dissolved organic matter (DOM), with reclaimed water having higher DOC concentrations and more hydrophobic properties. Reclaimed water primarily contains SMPs-like and humic acid-like substances, while stormwater runoff primarily contains humic acid-like DOM. Reclaimed water has relatively higher formation potential of disinfection by-products (DBPs), while rainwater has the lowest formation potential.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Christina Semasinghe, Santosh Jatrana, Tanya J. King
Summary: This study examines the association between perceived water scarcity and support for alternative water sources, specifically desalination and recycled water. A survey conducted in Australia's Geelong region found that 82% of respondents supported undefined alternative water sources, but support for specific alternatives was lower. Perception of water scarcity was significantly associated with increased odds of support for alternative water sources and support for recycled water. Climate change was found to mediate the relationship between perceived water scarcity and support for alternative sources.
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Miriam E. Hacker, Christian Binz
Summary: This paper examines the institutional barriers in on-site urban water management systems, presenting a conceptual framework with six key dimensions. The study reveals that socio-technical complexity increases with the pollution load in the source water and the number of sectors involved in the value chain of an alternative water system.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Luiz Antonio Papp, Flavio Aparecido Rodrigues, Wagner Alves de Souza Judice, Welington Luiz Araujo
Summary: The increasing population and housing density have led to greater consumption of water resources, causing drinking water shortages in many regions. This article discusses the performance of a wastewater treatment system in a shopping mall in Brazil, which successfully reused water for cooling towers and toilets, resulting in significant savings in drinking water consumption.
Article
Water Resources
Fransiscus Xaverius Prins, Anita Etale, Austin Dziwornu Ablo, Andrew Thatcher
Summary: Consumer perceptions play a crucial role in the success of strategies to address water scarcity. This study found that information provision can significantly influence consumer attitudes towards alternative water sources, particularly in increasing acceptance of reclaimed wastewater. The results also showed that direct reuse is more accepted than indirect reuse in situations of severe water scarcity.
URBAN WATER JOURNAL
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Kamonashish Haldar, Katarzyna Kujawa-Roeleveld, Marco Schoenmakers, Dilip Kumar Datta, Huub Rijnaarts, Jeroen Vos
Summary: The unplanned use of urban wastewater by peri-urban farmers in developing countries poses risks to the environment and farmers, while planned water reuse can reduce these risks. However, the implementation of planned water reuse requires consideration of stakeholder perceptions and existing organizational structures. The study found that the majority of stakeholders support planned water reuse for peri-urban agriculture.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Miriam E. Hacker, Christian Binz
Summary: Decentralized water reuse technologies are being explored as a complement to centralized water and wastewater infrastructure. This study examines the governance of infrastructure transitions and introduces an analytical framework for assessing how onsite water reuse is implemented with different hybrid governance arrangements in different cities, illustrated by the cases of San Francisco and New York City.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Kamonashish Haldar, Katarzyna Kujawa-Roeleveld, Tapos Kumar Acharjee, Dilip Kumar Datta, Huub Rijnaarts
Summary: Rapid changes in climate patterns, population growth, urbanization, and rising economic activities have increased the pressure on freshwater availability in the delta. This paper addresses the need for efficiently managing and reusing urban water resources for irrigation in Bangladesh's coastal plains. The study finds that there is a mismatch between irrigation demand and urban water supply, but this can be resolved by increasing water storage capacities. However, changing water management policies and constructing necessary infrastructures are essential for realizing urban water reuse.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Gislayne A. Oliveira, Gustavo S. Colares, Carlos A. Lutterbeck, Naira Dell'Osbel, Enio L. Machado, Lucia R. Rodrigues
Summary: Floating treatment wetlands (FTW) are efficient and easy to install technologies for the treatment of domestic wastewater, offering advantages such as low cost, nutrient removal and reduced maintenance and energy consumption compared to conventional centralized treatment. Further research is needed on the operation, cost assessment and reuse of FTW in decentralized systems.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Hamed Khorasani, Jiale Xu, Thuy Nguyen, Zachary Kralles, Paul Westerhoff, Ning Dai, Zhenduo Zhu
Summary: This study investigates the impact of treated wastewater on downstream drinking water sources, with non-WWTP sources contributing significantly to HAN-FP concentration, and the contributions of the two sources varying with streamflow discharge fluctuations.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Mario Ballesteros-Olza, Irene Blanco-Gutierrez, Paloma Esteve, Almudena Gomez-Ramos, Antonio Bolinches
Summary: In water-stressed agricultural regions, the reuse of reclaimed water is seen as a promising solution to improve water supply reliability and alleviate scarcity. However, the adoption of reclaimed water reuse is below its potential in many areas, including the Western La Mancha aquifer in Spain. A stakeholder-based fuzzy cognitive map was used to analyze the current situation and potential outcomes of different scenarios, such as increasing political will and social awareness. The simulations showed that political will increase would have the highest impact on increasing reclaimed water reuse in agriculture, followed by agricultural extensification and increased social awareness.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2022)
Review
Environmental Sciences
Mohammad Al-Saidi
Summary: This paper systematically examines the acceptance of water reuse, considering the three integrative elements of water reuse - the water source, the technology, and the end use - and conceptualizes acceptance as a social process. It reviews solutions to increasing water acceptance stemming from different bodies of acceptance studies.
FRONTIERS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Mary E. Schoen, Jay Garland, Jeffrey A. Soller, Sean X. Thimons, Michael A. Jahne
Summary: Calculated water system treatment requirements for enteric pathogens differ depending on whether the likelihood and severity of illness are considered in addition to the probability of infection. The study used infection and disability-adjusted life year (DALY) benchmarks to calculate log(10) reduction targets for on-site non-potable water systems. It was found that the differences in treatment requirements were driven by the likelihood of illness, rather than the severity of illness, for certain pathogens.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Sofia Cordeiro, Francesco Ferrario, Hugo Xambre Pereira, Filipa Ferreira, Jose Saldanha Matos
Summary: Water scarcity drives changes in water management to separate potable water from non-potable uses. Urban water reuse is a significant tool for municipalities to tackle water resource pressure and should be included in water management strategies. This paper explores the benefits and barriers of water reuse in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area and provides implementation examples covering potable and non-potable as well as direct and indirect reuse.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Jorrit Gosens, Christian Binz, Rasmus Lema
ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION AND SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS
(2020)
Editorial Material
Environmental Sciences
Christian Binz, Lars Coenen, James T. Murphy, Bernhard Truffer
ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION AND SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS
(2020)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Sabine Hoffmann, Ulrike Feldmann, Peter M. Bach, Christian Binz, Megan Farrelly, Niki Frantzeskaki, Harald Hiessl, Jennifer Inauen, Tove A. Larsen, Judit Lienert, Joerg Londong, Christoph Luthi, Max Maurer, Cynthia Mitchell, Eberhard Morgenroth, Kara L. Nelson, Lisa Scholten, Bernhard Truffer, Kai M. Udert
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
(2020)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Miriam E. Hacker, Christian Binz
Summary: This paper examines the institutional barriers in on-site urban water management systems, presenting a conceptual framework with six key dimensions. The study reveals that socio-technical complexity increases with the pollution load in the source water and the number of sectors involved in the value chain of an alternative water system.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Johan Mioerner, Christian Binz
Summary: This paper contributes to the geography of transitions literature by proposing a new framework that explains how institutionalization and re-scaling mechanisms impact different transition trajectories. Through a case study of technology standardization in the sanitation sector, it introduces a new transition trajectory model.
ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION AND SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS
(2021)
Article
Management
Jonas Heiberg, Bernhard Truffer, Christian Binz
Summary: STCA is a novel methodology for mapping and measuring socio-technical alignment processes, offering a configurational and dynamic perspective on transition trajectories. Illustrated with a global water sector case, it outlines potential contributions to configurational theorizing in transition studies.
Editorial Material
Economics
Huiwen Gong, Christian Binz, Robert Hassink, Michaela Trippl
Summary: This article introduces the study on the institutional effects of emerging industries, emphasizes the importance of analyzing emerging industries, and proposes a conceptual framework and future research directions.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Johan Miorner, Jonas Heiberg, Christian Binz
Summary: This paper focuses on the construction, diffusion, and reproduction of regime rationalities in different geographical contexts, and introduces a conceptual model to analyze these processes. The empirical analysis illustrates how regime actors strategically diffuse and legitimize the dominant socio-technical configuration in the water sector in San Diego, during a period of significant transformative opportunities.
ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION AND SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS
(2022)
Article
Economics
Christian Binz, Huiwen Gong
Summary: Through a comparative case study of the potable water reuse industry in California and the video games industry in Hamburg, this article explores the dynamics of legitimation in regional industrial path development. The study elaborates on the differences in system-building/reconfiguration and institutional work processes between new-to-the-world and new-to-the-region industries. The framework contributes to understanding the embedded agency that supports legitimation and path development in distinct industry formation trajectories.
Review
Engineering, Environmental
Tove A. Larsen, Harald Gruendl, Christian Binz
Summary: Traditional sewer-based wastewater management is inadequate for achieving sustainable development goals. Radical innovations like urine source separation technologies can accelerate progress by developing closed-loop nutrient cycles for efficient wastewater treatment and reuse in agriculture.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE-WATER RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Business
Christian Binz, Jorrit Gosens, Xiao-Shan Yap, Zhen Yu
INDUSTRIAL AND CORPORATE CHANGE
(2020)
Article
Economics
Jonas Heiberg, Christian Binz, Bernhard Truffer
ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY
(2020)
Article
Management
Ann Hipp, Christian Binz
Article
Economics
Heiko Gebauer, Christian Binz
Article
Environmental Sciences
Emily Christley, Emrah Karakaya, Frauke Urban
Summary: This paper analyzes the transitions in the aviation industry in Sweden and examines the role of narratives as coordinating mechanisms in sustainability transitions. The study finds that industry actors construct narratives about alternative fuels and technologies to maintain the societal function of aviation while mitigating its climate impact. Narratives not only initiate transitions but also play a vital role in coordinating actors' transition activities.
ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION AND SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS
(2024)
