Special Topics in Environmental Engineering and Water Resources: Pathways to Water Sector Decarbonization

This course discusses the emerging OneWater framework that offers a holistic and integrated approach to consider all water resources as one water to achieve reliable, sustainable, secure, and resilient water systems. The goal is to create pathways for decarbonization while building OneWater systems for circular water economy/water resiliency/socioeconomic equity. Will identify sources of carbon emissions during water utilization cycle, teach emission quantification tools, investigate mechanisms, processes, technologies and policies that will reduce carbon footprint and potentially lead the sector to become energy positive and carbon negative.