|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Water-Neutral Concept for a Manufacturing Industry Purnima C.T.*, Nandan Abhishek Department of Health, Safety and Environment, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, India *Corresponding Author Email: purnima.singh92@gmail.com
Online published on 2 December, 2015. Abstract Water Neutrality is that one reduces the water footprint of an activity as much as reasonably possible and offsets negative externalities of the remaining water footprint. ‘Water Neutral’ generally does not mean that water use is brought down to zero, but that the negative economic, social and environmental externalities are reduced to much extent and that the remaining impacts are fully compensated. The idea of the concept is to stimulate individuals and corporations that undertake water consuming or polluting activities to make their activity ‘water neutral’ by reducing water consumption and pollution and by compensating the negative impacts of remaining water consumption and pollution through investing in projects that promote the sustainable and equitable use of water within the environment and community that is affected. An increasing number of businesses recognize that not only their operations, but also their supplies depend and impact on natural water systems. Hence, this approach offers a great opportunity to translate water footprint impacts into action to mitigate those impacts within both communities and business. In this Paper the concept of water neutrality is discussed in detail and the concept is applied to a bearing manufacturing industry. Top Keywords Water Neutral, Water footprint, negative externalities, manufacturing industry. Top | |
|
|
|
|
║ Site map
║
Privacy Policy ║ Copyright ║ Terms & Conditions ║
 ║
|
|
|
834,473,620 visitor(s) since 30th May, 2005.
|
|
All rights reserved. Site designed and maintained by DIVA ENTERPRISES PVT. LTD..
|
|
Note: Please use Internet Explorer (6.0 or above). Some functionalities may not work in other browsers.
|