Quebec, CA

Switzerland

Europe without Switzerland (Ecoinvent)

Rest-of-World (Ecoinvent)

Wastewater - average (treatment of - wastewater treatment)

United Arab Emirates (the)

Afghanistan

Antigua and Barbuda

Albania

Angola

Argentina

Austria

Australia

Barbados

Bangladesh

Belgium

Burkina Faso

Bulgaria

Bahrain

Burundi

Benin

Bolivia, Plurinational State of

Brazil

Bahamas

Bhutan

Belize

Canada

Central African Republic

Congo

Côte d'Ivoire

Chile

Cameroon

China

Colombia

Costa Rica

Cyprus

Czechia

Germany

Denmark

Dominica

Dominican Republic

Algeria

Ecuador

Estonia

Egypt

Spain

Ethiopia

Finland

Fiji

France

Gabon

United Kingdom

Grenada

Gambia

Guinea

Equatorial Guinea

Greece

Guatemala

Guinea-Bissau

Hong Kong

Honduras

Croatia

Haiti

Hungary

Indonesia

Ireland

Israel

India

Iraq

Iran, Islamic Republic of

Iceland

Italy

Jamaica

Jordan

Japan

Kenya

Cambodia

Kiribati

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Korea, Republic of

Kuwait

Kazakhstan

Lao People's Democratic Republic

Lebanon

Saint Lucia

Sri Lanka

Lesotho

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Latvia

Morocco

Moldova, Republic of

North Macedonia

Mali

Myanmar

Mongolia

Malta

Mauritius

Maldives

Malawi

Mexico

Malaysia

Namibia

Niger

Water / sewage and other systems

Alberta, CA

British Columbia, CA

Manitoba, CA

New Brunswick, CA

Newfoundland and Labrador, CA

Nova Scotia, CA

Northwest Territories, CA

Nunavut, CA

Ontario, CA

Prince Edward Island, CA

Saskatchewan, CA

Yukon, CA

Sewage and dirty water disposal and cleaning services

Netherlands

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Central Asia and Pacific Asia, Oceania, Antarctica

East Europe and Iceland

Africa except Egypt and South Africa

Latin America except Brazil

Middle East, Asia and Egypt

Sweden

Slovenia

Slovakia

Türkiye

Taiwan (Province of China)

United States of America (the)

South Africa

Collected and purified water / distribution of water (services)

The activity generating the emissions is treatment of wastewater, average, wastewater treatment. The reference product is wastewater, average. Wastewater, average is a by-product (wastewater) produced from residential sources. It is generated from a wide range of residential, industrial and commercial activities.  By the database default (and per unit of reference product),wastewater, average has the following physicochemical characteristics:  C: 0.000000043979 kg/m3 , N: 0.031015 kg/m3 , P: 0.0044833 kg/m3. This by-product can have a regional-specific composition; users are prompted to refer to the properties of this wastewater (in activities treating them) for a detailed elemental composition.  This kind of by-product (wastewater) is generated from ordinary transforming activities, and as such can be considered for modelling wastewater outputs of comparable composition.   In the ecoinvent database, treatment option/s for this wastewater include: wastewater treatment plant.  This by-product can be modelled on two levels: treatment activity and market activity. The former one refers to the specific technology treating the by-product while the latter level represents a mix of treatments. Users are encouraged to inspect the modelling assumptions of the treatment activities and when selecting the market to additionally inspect the treatment mix.  Collection and transportation of wastewater is accounted in the respective market activity with the use of sewer infrastructure; Transportation of wastewater through a sewer grid results in losses until the wastewater enters the wastewater treatment plant. Direct emissions due to those losses are considered in the market activity. Losses are regional specific and thus users are encouraged to inspect the regional modelling assumptions. The reference product amount is -1. The cut-off classification is Waste. The activity type is ordinary ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/25568/documentation.

The activity generating the emissions is treatment of wastewater, average, wastewater treatment. The reference product is wastewater, average. Wastewater, average is a by-product (wastewater) produced from residential sources. It is generated from a wide range of residential, industrial and commercial activities.  By the database default (and per unit of reference product),wastewater, average has the following physicochemical characteristics:  C: 0.000000043979 kg/m3 , N: 0.031015 kg/m3 , P: 0.0044833 kg/m3. This by-product can have a regional-specific composition; users are prompted to refer to the properties of this wastewater (in activities treating them) for a detailed elemental composition.  This kind of by-product (wastewater) is generated from ordinary transforming activities, and as such can be considered for modelling wastewater outputs of comparable composition.   In the ecoinvent database, treatment option/s for this wastewater include: wastewater treatment plant.  This by-product can be modelled on two levels: treatment activity and market activity. The former one refers to the specific technology treating the by-product while the latter level represents a mix of treatments. Users are encouraged to inspect the modelling assumptions of the treatment activities and when selecting the market to additionally inspect the treatment mix.  Collection and transportation of wastewater is accounted in the respective market activity with the use of sewer infrastructure; Transportation of wastewater through a sewer grid results in losses until the wastewater enters the wastewater treatment plant. Direct emissions due to those losses are considered in the market activity. Losses are regional specific and thus users are encouraged to inspect the regional modelling assumptions. The reference product amount is -1. The cut-off classification is Waste. The activity type is ordinary ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/26546/documentation.

The activity generating the emissions is treatment of wastewater, average, wastewater treatment. The reference product is wastewater, average. Wastewater, average is a by-product (wastewater) produced from residential sources. It is generated from a wide range of residential, industrial and commercial activities.  By the database default (and per unit of reference product),wastewater, average has the following physicochemical characteristics:  C: 0.000000043979 kg/m3 , N: 0.031015 kg/m3 , P: 0.0044833 kg/m3. This by-product can have a regional-specific composition; users are prompted to refer to the properties of this wastewater (in activities treating them) for a detailed elemental composition.  This kind of by-product (wastewater) is generated from ordinary transforming activities, and as such can be considered for modelling wastewater outputs of comparable composition.   In the ecoinvent database, treatment option/s for this wastewater include: wastewater treatment plant.  This by-product can be modelled on two levels: treatment activity and market activity. The former one refers to the specific technology treating the by-product while the latter level represents a mix of treatments. Users are encouraged to inspect the modelling assumptions of the treatment activities and when selecting the market to additionally inspect the treatment mix.  Collection and transportation of wastewater is accounted in the respective market activity with the use of sewer infrastructure; Transportation of wastewater through a sewer grid results in losses until the wastewater enters the wastewater treatment plant. Direct emissions due to those losses are considered in the market activity. Losses are regional specific and thus users are encouraged to inspect the regional modelling assumptions. The reference product amount is -1. The cut-off classification is Waste. The activity type is ordinary ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/25848/documentation.

The activity generating the emissions is treatment of wastewater, average, wastewater treatment. The reference product is wastewater, average. Wastewater, average is a by-product (wastewater) produced from residential sources. It is generated from a wide range of residential, industrial and commercial activities.  By the database default (and per unit of reference product),wastewater, average has the following physicochemical characteristics:  C: 0.000000043979 kg/m3 , N: 0.031015 kg/m3 , P: 0.0044833 kg/m3. This by-product can have a regional-specific composition; users are prompted to refer to the properties of this wastewater (in activities treating them) for a detailed elemental composition.  This kind of by-product (wastewater) is generated from ordinary transforming activities, and as such can be considered for modelling wastewater outputs of comparable composition.   In the ecoinvent database, treatment option/s for this wastewater include: wastewater treatment plant.  This by-product can be modelled on two levels: treatment activity and market activity. The former one refers to the specific technology treating the by-product while the latter level represents a mix of treatments. Users are encouraged to inspect the modelling assumptions of the treatment activities and when selecting the market to additionally inspect the treatment mix.  Collection and transportation of wastewater is accounted in the respective market activity with the use of sewer infrastructure; Transportation of wastewater through a sewer grid results in losses until the wastewater enters the wastewater treatment plant. Direct emissions due to those losses are considered in the market activity. Losses are regional specific and thus users are encouraged to inspect the regional modelling assumptions. The reference product amount is -1. The cut-off classification is Waste. The activity type is ordinary ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/26478/documentation.

Property	Value
Name	Wastewater - average (treatment of - wastewater treatment)
Sector	Water
Category	Water Treatment
Source	ecoinvent
Region	Quebec, CA (CA-QC), Switzerland (CH), Europe without Switzerland (Ecoinvent) (ECOINVENT_EUROPE_EXP_CH), Rest-of-World (Ecoinvent) (ECOINVENT_ROW)
Unit Type	Volume
Year	2010
LCA Activity	unknown

Wastewater - average (treatment of - wastewater treatment)

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