WIT Press


Integral Restructuring Of An Existing High-density City-district Through The Introduction Of A Decentralised (waste) Water And Energy Concept

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

72

Pages

11

Published

2004

Size

1,331 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/SC040681

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

A. van Timmeren & B.M.A. Meijer

Abstract

Over the years man has intervened more and more in the water cycle, resulting in environmental problems like pollution, flooding, and drought. Governments tend to resolve these problems with expensive ‘end-of-the-pipe’-technologies resulting in more energy use and several other problems on larger scales. Apart from that, problems seem to be postponed to future-generations. Solutions will not have to be found in separate technical systems for the different ‘flows’ but in integrated environmental, social an

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