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T1 Understanding water energy nexus in drinking water provision: an eco-efficiency assessment of water companies
A1 Molinos Senante, María
A1 Maziotis, Alexandros
A1 Sala Garrido, Ramón
A1 Mocholi Arce, Manuel
K1 Environmental efficiency
K1 Eficiencia ambiental
K1 Water utilities
K1 Servicios de aguas
K1 Eco-efficiency
K1 Ecoeficiencia
AB Understanding water-energy nexus in the provision of drinking water services is a challenge which has outstanding relevance in the current climatic emergency. Environmental efficiency and eco-efficiency assessment of water companies are two useful tools to address this challenge. In this study, we estimated hyperbolic and enhanced hyperbolic distance functions to compute the potential reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and energy costs in the provision of drinking water. The empirical application focused on the English and Welsh water companies over 2011-2019. Average environmental efficiency and eco-efficiency scores were 0.920 and 0.962, respectively which indicates that water companies performed well but there is room for improvement. Moreover, due to the economies of scale, the cost of reducing GHG emissions was higher for water and sewerage companies than for water only companies. The results and conclusions of this study allow better understanding of the relationship between the provision of drinking water, energy costs and GHG emissions.
PB Elsevier
SN 0043-1354
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/55597
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/55597
LA eng
NO Water Research, Volume 225, 2022, 119133
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 21-dic-2024