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Abstract
Sustainable Water Services: A Procedural Guide is the result of the Sustainable Water industry Asset Resource Decisions (SWARD) project, undertaken by a consortium of UK academics in collaboration with water service providers in Scotland, England and Romania. It has been developed to act as a practical tool to assist with the explicit inclusion of ?sustainability? in the decision-making processes of those responsible for providing water services. The book contains a framework that comprises a set of decision support processes that can be used by water service providers to explicitly incorporate sustainability considerations into their decision-making procedures, through the use of sustainability principles, criteria, indicators and processes. These principles and criteria can be applied at an overall corporate strategic level, for example in the service provider?s mission statement, or at an application level, where these strategic principles are being applied to a particular decision. Sustainable Water Services is designed to inform and to provide support for strategic activity, both as a resource containing information about sustainability, and by employing feedback from application to inform the strategic processes of the water service provider. Presents an inclusive and generic set of sustainability criteria for use in water industry decision making processes; Discusses the legislative drivers for sustainable decision making for the UK water industry; Presents clear case study examples of the sustainability framework in action; Discusses the use and applicability of a wide range of tools and techniques for undertaking environmental, economic and social analyses, e.g. life cycle assessment, multi-criteria analysis.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUSTAINABLE WATER SERVICES: A procedural guide | FP2 | ||
| Contents | i | ||
| Foreword | iii | ||
| Acknowledgements | v | ||
| PREFACE | vi | ||
| GLOSSARY | xi | ||
| 1 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE WATER INDUSTRY | 1 | ||
| 1.1 Sustainable Development | 1 | ||
| 1.2 Sustainable Development and the Water Industry | 3 | ||
| 1.3 Sustainability Criteria | 4 | ||
| 1.3.1 International approaches to developing sustainability criteria | 7 | ||
| 1.3.2 UK approaches to developing sustainability criteria | 10 | ||
| 1.4 Water Industry Appropriate Sustainability Criteria | 11 | ||
| 1.4.1 Economic criteria | 13 | ||
| 1.4.2 Environmental criteria | 13 | ||
| 1.4.3 Social criteria | 13 | ||
| 1.4.4 Technical criteria | 14 | ||
| 2 DECISION MAKING FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT | 19 | ||
| 2.1 Drivers for improving the quality of Water Industry decisions | 19 | ||
| 2.2 Types of decision supported | 25 | ||
| 2.3 The SWARD concept | 30 | ||
| 2.4 Options appraisal and decision making | 34 | ||
| 2.5 Tools to assist decision making | 37 | ||
| 2.5.1 Decision Analysis Methods | 38 | ||
| 2.5.2 Limits to Objectivity in Decision-Making | 39 | ||
| 2.5.3 Multi Criteria Decision Making Methods | 40 | ||
| 2.5.4 Use of Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methods within SWARD | 43 | ||
| 2.5.5 Value management | 43 | ||
| 2.5.6 Use of Value Management within SWARD | 46 | ||
| 3 DECISION SUPPORT PROCESSES – IMPLEMENTING SWARD | 47 | ||
| 3.1 Phase 1 -Define Objectives | 47 | ||
| 3.2 Phase 2 -Generate options | 48 | ||
| 3.3 Phase 3 -Select criteria and indicators | 52 | ||
| 3.4 Phase 4 -Collect data and generate information | 61 | ||
| 3.4.1 Tools for generating data | 65 | ||
| 3.5 Phase 5 -Analyse Options | 75 | ||
| 3.6 Phase 6 -Selection of preferred option | 75 | ||
| 3.6.1 Risk and Uncertainty | 78 | ||
| 3.6.2 Incorporation of Intangible Aspects | 79 | ||
| 3.6.3 Making a Decision (Box 3.10 and Box 3.11) | 79 | ||
| 3.7 Phase 7 -Post decision phase: Monitoring and Feedback | 81 | ||
| 3.7.1 Decision Review | 82 | ||
| 3.7.2 Process Review | 82 | ||
| REFERENCES | 86 | ||
| APPENDICES | 95 | ||
| Appendix A: Sustainability Indicators | 96 | ||
| Appendix B: Data Collection and Information Generation | 110 | ||
| Appendix C: Multi-Criteria Analysis Techniques and Their Application | 157 | ||
| Appendix D: Case Studies | 194 | ||
| D1: Water Supply,Treatment and Distribution Strategy | 194 | ||
| D2: Management of Domestic Sanitary Waste Disposed of Via the WC | 231 | ||
| INDEX | 347 |