Harnessing Opportunity: Wastewater as a Managed Resource

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dc.contributor.authorUnited Nations Environment Programme
dc.contributor.organizationEcosystems Division
dc.contributor.otherMoline, Ann
dc.coverage.spatialSouth Africa
dc.coverage.spatialJordan
dc.coverage.spatialSingapore
dc.coverage.spatialBrazil
dc.coverage.spatialLatin America and the Caribbean
dc.coverage.spatialUnited States
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-20T05:57:15Z
dc.date.available2017-03-20T05:57:15Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.descriptionThis document frames wastewater as a managed resource and explains why shifting from disposal to recovery yields health, environmental, and economic gains. It outlines ten guidelines for integrated planning, regulation, technology choice, and financing, stressing local context and enforceable standards. It presents policy case studies where enabling laws and municipal action expanded sanitation and reuse in South Africa and Jordan. It reviews technology options, from Singapore’s membrane- and UV-based reclamation supplying industry and indirect potable use to Brazil’s lime-stabilized sludge applied as fertilizer under engineered controls. It details financing models, including Caribbean revolving funds and California’s bond-backed support for groundwater replenishment. It closes with innovations like biogas recovery and flags emerging issues such as endocrine disruptors and microplastics requiring further research and policy updates.en
dc.formatpdf
dc.identifier.isbn978-92-807-3612-0
dc.identifier.urihttps://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/17679
dc.languageEnglish
dc.rights.accessLevelPublic
dc.subjectwater reuse
dc.subjectwaste utilization
dc.subjectSouth Africa
dc.subjectJordan
dc.subjectSingapore
dc.subjectwater treatment
dc.subjectBrazil
dc.subjectCaribbean region
dc.subjectUnited States
dc.subjectcase study
dc.subject.sdgSDG 6 - Clean Water and Sanitation
dc.titleHarnessing Opportunity: Wastewater as a Managed Resourceen
dc.typeTechnical report
wd.identifier.newreleaseYesen
wd.identifier.sdgiohttp://purl.unep.org/sdg/SDGIO_00000040

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