Professional Documents
Culture Documents
• Water scarcity
• Marine fisheries
• Rapid growth in mining
coal seam gas
development
• Climate change and
green house gas
emission policy
Coal seam gas
• http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2013/03
/12/factbox-csg-australia
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUD_26X
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Acid sulfate soils
• Visit the site and view the video
• http://vro.agriculture.vic.gov.au/dpi/vro/vrosit
e.nsf/pages/soil_acid_sulfate_soils
Increase in salinity
• http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=salinit
y+issues+in+Murray+darling+basin&adlt=strict
&view=detail&mid=2894FDB5A28C1D07EE65
2894FDB5A28C1D07EE65&FORM=VRDGAR
Peak oil crisis
• Watch the video below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukTKnouW
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New technologies to support
sustainability
• Water sensitive urban design
• Forward osmosis
• Membrane bioreactor
• Urine recovery and treatment
• Composting
• Reverse osmosis
• Land application of digested sludge
Water sensitive urban design
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KFqEmc
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Urine separation
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGsP9n7
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Energy harvesting
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz_L6KuqvFI
• Solar power
• Microbial fuel cells – from wastewater??
• Energy generation from salty water – pressure
retarded osmosis
• Microbial fuel cells
• Wave energy
• Wind energy
Pressure retarded osmosis – energy
from the salt
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc5bXa5
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Microbial fuel cells
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZotwUJA
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Microbial fuel cells