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Climate change is considered to be one of the main challenges to urban wastewater systems in future decades. It is estimated that climate change has a dual effect on wastewater treatment (WWT) plants. The processes occurring in a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) are subsequently affected by climate change; more extreme weather events and earlier snowmelt runoff will lead to more untreated sewer overflows, increased flooding, etc. Due to increased scarcity of water resources, wastewater reuse will become more necessary as climate change accelerates. On the other hand, during wastewater treatment, greenhouse gases (GHGs) including carbon dioxide (CO2) from aerobic (oxidation processes), methane (CH4) from anaerobic processes (3–19 % of global anthropogenic methane emissions), and nitrous oxide (N2O) (3 % of N2O emissions from all sources) associated with nitrification/denitrification (NDN) processes, as an intermediate product, can be emitted to the atmosphere. The various problems associated with climate change and WWT operation and the solutions that can be applied to deal with them are discussed in this chapter.
Anastasios Zouboulis; Athanasia Tolkou. Effect of Climate Change in Wastewater Treatment Plants: Reviewing the Problems and Solutions. Managing Water Resources under Climate Uncertainty 2014, 197 -220.
AMA StyleAnastasios Zouboulis, Athanasia Tolkou. Effect of Climate Change in Wastewater Treatment Plants: Reviewing the Problems and Solutions. Managing Water Resources under Climate Uncertainty. 2014; ():197-220.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAnastasios Zouboulis; Athanasia Tolkou. 2014. "Effect of Climate Change in Wastewater Treatment Plants: Reviewing the Problems and Solutions." Managing Water Resources under Climate Uncertainty , no. : 197-220.