Integrated Sustainable Urban Water, Energy, and Solids Management: Achieving Triple Net-Zero Adverse Impact Goals and Resiliency of Future Communities

A guide for urban areas to achieve sustainability by recovering water, energy, and solids. The book presents an integrated and sustainable system of urban water, used (waste) water, and waste solids management that saves and protects water quality, recovers energy and other resources from used water and waste solids including plastics, and minimizes or eliminates the need for landfills.

Written by Vladimir Novotny, a noted expert on the topic, the book explains how to accomplish sustainability with drainage infrastructures connected to receiving waters that protect or mimic nature and are resilient to natural and anthropogenic stresses, including extreme events. It shows how to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases to net zero level through water conservation, recycling, and generating blue and green energy from waste by emerging emission-free technologies while simultaneously installing solar power on houses and wind power in communities.

Water conservation and stormwater capture can provide good water quality for diverse applications from natural and reclaimed water to blue and green energy and other resources for use by present and future generations. The book considers municipal solid waste as an ongoing source of energy and resources that will eliminate the need for landfills and can be processed along with used water.