Production weighted water use impact characterisation factors for the global mining industry
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Current water use assessment methods in LCA have problems with groundwater impacts.
“and groundwater impacts (Northey et al., 2018).”
From Life cycle assessment and water use impacts of lithium production from salar deposits: Challenges and opportunities (2024) · cites this paper as Northey et al., 2018
Current water use assessment methods in LCA have problems accurately reflecting local conditions.
“These include the ability to accurately reflect local conditions (Northey et al., 2018;Kaewmai et al., 2019;Andrade et al., 2020;Sanchez-Matos et al., 2023);”
From Life cycle assessment and water use impacts of lithium production from salar deposits: Challenges and opportunities (2024) · cites this paper as Northey et al., 2018
AWARE is valuable for assessing and comparing projects in a global context, but its underlying models have limited resolution so may not accurately reflect local fresh water scarcity and impacts.
“AWARE is valuable for assessing and comparing projects in a global context, but underlying models have a limited resolution so may not accurately reflect local fresh water scarcity and impacts (Northey et al., 2018;Kaewmai et al., 2019;Andrade et al., 2020;Sanchez-Matos et al., 2023).”
From Life cycle assessment and water use impacts of lithium production from salar deposits: Challenges and opportunities (2024) · cites this paper as Northey et al., 2018
AWARE is not designed to assess potential impacts of groundwater depletion and is underdeveloped regarding this.
“AWARE is not designed to assess potential impacts of groundwater depletion and is underdeveloped regarding this (Northey et al., 2018).”
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- Authors
- Northey, S. A., Madrid López, C., Haque, N., Mudd, G. M., & Yellishetty, M.
- Affiliations
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (AU)
- RMIT University (AU)
- Monash University (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Northey, Stephen A.
- Venue
- Journal of Cleaner Production
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2018-05
- Volume
- 184
- Pages
- 788-797
- ISSN
- 0959-6526 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2790991682
- Cited by
- 28
- References
- 36
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 2
- FWCI
- 1.51
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- erratum (2019-07-01)
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Cleaner Production (publishedVersion)
- RMIT Research Repository (RMIT University Library) (submittedVersion)
- Figshare (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Engineering › Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Water Science and Technology › Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Engineering › Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis
- Keywords
- mining industry, water use impacts, watershed scale, water stress index, consumptive water use, water scarcity
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