Sustainability

Abstract

Acknowledgment: Azadeh Akhavan Bloorchian of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and Thomas McGrew of Drexel University contributed to this review and are acknowledged. The stormwater and green infrastructure (GI) described the current development in four categories: (1) new studies of GI and low impact development (LID) system performance; (2) GI/LID planning assessments; (3) macro-scale hydrologic and hydraulic modeling of GI/LID systems; and (4) social implications of GI/LID systems. The sustainability in wastewater treatment reviewed wastewater as a resource, wastewater treatment, and wastewater treatment plant carbon and energy footprint. Mol et al. (2011) studied aquifer thermal energy storage and energy recovery from drinking water, concluded that public water utilities can make use of heat and cold from the water cycle and public water utilities could play a role about extracting energy from water.Sekar and Sinha (2011) described the development of a web and GIS based platform for quantitative risk Federation assessment for water and wastewater pipelines, where the probability, consequence and the threat due to pipeline failure were considered. Real-time data derived by GIS from water and wastewater utilities were used to evaluate the studied parameters. This platform as a comprehensive tool for sustainable utility risk management would support utilities to access to their respective data for risk assessment. Sustainable Water Resources ManagementPeng et al. (2011) described case study on the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city about how to manage local water resources in a water scarce urban setting.