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Journal article
Building the case for water and resource recovery in Canada: practitioners' perspectives
Water Policy, Vol.23(1), pp.157-166
01/02/2021
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Abstract
Water and resource recovery (WRR) involves the collection and treatment of rainwater, stormwater, and/or municipal wastewater to a fit-for-purpose standard. There is no national policy for WRR in Canada, and there are minimal WRR-specific provincial regulations; given this lack of regulation, current projects are highly specific to the local context and approved individually. We engaged people who work with water and wastewater services in the province of Alberta, Canada to discuss what WRR could look like in their context. During 3-h workshops, information on WRR was shared and participants engaged in discussions using a World Café process. Participants discussed the need for supportive regulations and government leadership, financial support, collaboration and knowledge sharing, education and communication, and accounting for risk and liability. Given that the participants are individuals who would be impacted by the development of regulations for WRR, we discuss concepts to provide the guidance needed for the successful implementation of WRR. This research connected experts in water and wastewater and gave space for developing ideas that make sense to those most closely involved in delivering WRR systems.
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- Title
- Building the case for water and resource recovery in Canada: practitioners' perspectives
- Creators
- Jacqueline Noga - University of AlbertaJane Springett - University of AlbertaNicholas Ashbolt - Southern Cross University
- Publication Details
- Water Policy, Vol.23(1), pp.157-166
- Publisher
- IWA Publishing
- Grant note
- We are most thankful for funding from the Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR grant TGEHIPR 150713) and Alberta Innovates (grant 201300490).
- Identifiers
- 991012961198602368
- Copyright
- © 2021 The Authors This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY 4.0), which permits copying, adaptation and redistribution, provided the original work is properly cited (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Science and Engineering; School of Environment, Science and Engineering; Science
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article