Authors:
Mustafa Abdulameer, Ahmed Samir Naje, K. Pradeep, K. Saranya
Addresses:
Department of Water Resources Engineering Management, College of Engineering, Al-Qasim Green University, Al-Qasim, Babylon, Iraq. Department of Petroleum Engineering, Dhaanish Ahmed College of Engineering, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Abstract:
The main purpose of water treatment is to give customers access to high-quality drinking water. Making drinking water from fresh surface water requires several steps, consumes energy, and uses chemicals, all of which affect ecosystems worldwide. When choosing how to treat water, it's crucial to consider these factors. This paper provides an overview of different types of water treatment and the plants that perform them. This study also examines how well environmental analysis methods perform in determining whether water treatment plants affect the ecosystems around them. Following this, a detailed overview of the fundamentals of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) will be provided. The last part of the study will outline how life cycle assessment (LCA) can be applied to water systems. At the end of the paper, there is a summary of how LCA can be used in water systems. To sum up, researchers discussed a comprehensive review of this investigation and the problems encountered in the current study's contribution.
Keywords: Environmentally Sustainable; Water Management; Life Cycle Assessment (LCA); Water Treatment Plant (WTP); Weighted Arithmetic Method; Environmental Analysis.
Received on: 29/09/2024, Revised on: 26/11/2024, Accepted on: 18/02/2025, Published on: 15/12/2025
DOI: 10.64091/ATIAS.2025.000248
AVE Trends in Intelligent Applied Sciences, 2025 Vol. 1 No. 4 , Pages: 185-196