Assessing the feasibility of using produced water for irrigation in Colorado

Dolan, Flannery; Cath, Tzahi Y.; Hogue, T. S.

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.05.200

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“…The data generated in this study mirror the format of the commonly used datasets reported by the United States Department of Agriculture, allowing for data processing compatibility with other efforts. The methods can also be applied at a county scale to match the interests of local management districts and statewide water resources conservation objectives [47]. In addition, the climate-related predictor variables used in the numerical model can be replaced with future climate projections at the same scale to develop estimates of feedbacks between irrigation and climate change.…”

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Increased Dependence on Irrigated Crop Production Across the CONUS (1945–2015)

Smidt

Kendall

Hyndman

2019

Water

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Efficient irrigation technologies, which seem to promise reduced production costs and water consumption in heavily irrigated areas, may instead be driving increased irrigation use in areas that were not traditionally irrigated. As a result, the total dependence on supplemental irrigation for crop production and revenue is steadily increasing across the contiguous United States. Quantifying this dependence has been hampered by a lack of comprehensive irrigated and dryland yield and harvested area data outside of major irrigated regions, despite the importance and long history of irrigation applications in agriculture. This study used a linear regression model to disaggregate lumped agricultural statistics and estimate average irrigated and dryland yields at the state level for five major row crops: corn, cotton, hay, soybeans, and wheat. For 1945-2015, we quantified crop production, irrigation enhancement revenue, and irrigated and dryland areas in both intensively irrigated and marginally-dependent states, where both irrigated and dryland farming practices are implemented. In 2015, we found that irrigating just the five commodity crops enhanced revenue by~$7 billion across all states with irrigation. In states with both irrigated and dryland practices, 23% of total produced area relied on irrigation, resulting in 7% more production than from dryland practices. There was a clear response to increasing biofuel demand, with the addition of more than 3.6 million ha of irrigated corn and soybeans in the last decade in marginally-dependent states. Since 1945, we estimate that yield enhancement due to irrigation has resulted in over $465 billion in increased revenue across the contiguous United States (CONUS). Example applications of this dataset include estimating historical water use, evaluating the effects of environmental policies, developing new resource management strategies, economic risk analyses, and developing tools for farmer decision making.

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Increased Dependence on Irrigated Crop Production Across the CONUS (1945–2015)

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Kendall

Hyndman

2019

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“…Nessa perspectiva, a AP é considerada o rejeito com o maior fluxo de contaminantes associado à geoquímica da área de exploração petrolífera (Hosny et al, 2016;Dolan et al, 2018;Jiménez, Micó, Arnaldos, Derrero, Malfeito, Medina, & Contreras, 2018). A amplitude e a grandeza do impacto ambiental dependem de fatores tais como a região onde a atividade está inserida, as dimensões de projeto e a existência ou não de medidas preventivas, preditivas e corretivas a serem adotadas para minimizar danos (Gomes, 2014).…”

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“…A corrente de fluido atinge diretamente aspectos ambientais e econômicos associados à produção de petróleo e gás. Além disso, essa água pode conter alta salinidade, alta concentração de metais, contaminantes orgânicos e inorgânicos, material radioativo, dentre outros elementos conhecidos por serem prejudiciais à saúde humana e ao meio ambiente (Dolan, Cath, & Hogue, 2018). No entanto, a amplitude e a grandeza do impacto ambiental causado pela água produzida não são contínuas, pois suas consequências oscilam de acordo com a região onde a atividade está inserida, bem como com o tempo de exposição aos fatores agressores, dimensões de projeto, medidas preventivas, preditivas e corretivas adotadas para minimizar os resultados danosos (Gomes, 2014).…”

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Caracterização E Análise Do Potencial Da Água Produzida Como Alternativa Para Reúso

Barbosa

Navoni

Tavares

2019

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Em regiões semiáridas, a escassez hídrica é uma problemática que põem em risco a sustentabilidade do desenvolvimento socioeconômico regional. Diante disso, o presente trabalho teve como intuito avaliar a qualidade da água produzida proveniente da indústria petrolífera no nordeste brasileiro no município de Mossoró-RN e seu potencial uso na irrigação. Amostras de água produzida foram avaliadas para caracterização físico-químicas (pH, condutividade, sólidos totais dissolvidos, salinidade, alcalinidade, carbonato, bicarbonato, cálcio, magnésio, dureza, cloreto, sódio, potássio, nitrato, sulfato, ferro) e toxicológicas (metais pesados: cádmio, cobre, chumbo, cromo, manganês, níquel, zinco e alumínio além do TOG). No que diz respeito às análises físico-químicas, os valores de NaHCO3, Ca2+, Mg2+, K+ e Cl- estiveram fora dos limiares considerados pelo manual de irrigação da EMBRAPA. Para as análises toxicológicas, todos os metais ficaram conformes e apenas o TOG extrapolou o limite permitido pela CONAMA nº 430/2011, que trata sobre a gestão do lançamento de efluentes, indicando a necessidade de incorporação de processos para eliminar e/ou minimizar a ocorrência destes compostos, uma vez que a água utilizada neste estudo era um efluente, sem qualquer tipo de tratamento, garantindo a segurança sanitária deste recurso em práticas de irrigação. Sendo assim, a água produzida pode ser considerada um recurso hídrico alternativo para irrigação após tratamento adequado

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“…Hence, proper in-situ monitoring has become an indispensable controlling method to facilitate the enactment of laws and regulations (Gagnon et al, 2016 As cited in Oetjen et al (2018), up to 98% of PW is being re-injected either to maintain the formation pressure and thus enhance oil recovery; or being re-injected for discharge into the underground environment. Despite being a relatively costly management method, re-injecting PW to the shale formation has the advantages of enhancing the oil production and reducing the discharge volume through recycling PW within the extraction process (Dolan et al, 2018;Siagian et al, 2018).…”

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“…Out of the PW samples selected worldwide, less than 10 % were suitable for food crops irrigation prior to water treatment approaches, and the primary concerns of irrigation water quality are salinity and sodicity. Another study targeted the state of Colorado which is relatively arid with a continuous growing population and water consumption (Dolan et al, 2018). An integrated decision selecting tool was adopted to interpret the economic justifiability of treating PW in pursuance of the irrigation standards.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Assessing the feasibility of using produced water for irrigation in Colorado

Cited by 66 publications

References 22 publications

Increased Dependence on Irrigated Crop Production Across the CONUS (1945–2015)

Increased Dependence on Irrigated Crop Production Across the CONUS (1945–2015)

Caracterização E Análise Do Potencial Da Água Produzida Como Alternativa Para Reúso

Nanofiltration with fast feed flow reversal (FFFR) for highly concentrated industrial wastewater treatment

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