Open AccessCIRCULAR ECONOMY AS A TOOL TO MITIGATE THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON WATER RESOURCES: THE CASE OF SPAIN
Author(s) -
Pilar Gracia de Rentería,
Amelia Pérez Zabaleta,
Gregorio Escalera Izquierdo
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
dyna
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.177
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1989-1490
pISSN - 0012-7361
DOI - 10.6036/9310
Subject(s) - reuse , circular economy , sustainability , climate change , water scarcity , water resources , scarcity , business , agriculture , volume (thermodynamics) , order (exchange) , natural resource economics , water use , environmental science , water resource management , environmental economics , environmental resource management , engineering , waste management , economics , geography , market economy , geology , ecology , oceanography , physics , archaeology , finance , quantum mechanics , biology
Circular economy has become in recent years one of the main strategies to achieve water sustainability and combat the effects of climate change. This study analyses the effectiveness of water reuse in Spain, as a circular economy strategy, in order to reduce the pressure on water resources used for agricultural, industrial and municipal uses. The results show that water reuse has the necessary potential to contribute to water sustainability, since a greater volume of reused water used in municipal uses reduces the volume of water collected from other sources. However, to reach this effectiveness also in the other uses, it would be necessary to increase the volume of reused water, something that Spain has certainly the capacity to carry out.Keywords: circular economy, reuse, water, scarcity, climate change