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CIRCULAR ECONOMY
Reuse of water
A global overview
Lot of the Riachuelo System in Buenos Aires, Argentina (Fisia Italimpianti)
Global water scarcity, droughts, Emanuele De Mattia, economic development) affects several
applications, such as domestic and envi-
increasing world population Head of Water Treatment Process, ronmental aspects. Furthermore, climate
FISIA Italimpianti S.p.A.
changes have a strong impact on water
and climate change all require availability, and the unpredictability of the
future climate makes water management
technology innovation and owadays, water manage- a high priority issue. This naturally results
in water reclamation and reuse, which is a
new business models for ment has gradually become method carried out to recycle treated wa-
a global issue: even though
stewater and take advantage of it to face
wastewater reutilization the total supply of freshwa- water shortages: the potential role of tre-
ter is supposed to cover ated wastewater as an alternative source
Nhuman demands, its spatial of water supply is remarkable, because it
and temporal distribution is often quite ir- allows to decrease water stress all over
regular and inadequate. In some regions the world.
of the world, the lack of proper clean One of the main and more immediate
water (mostly due to human activity and reasons to reuse treated wastewater is
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