Mohammad Ali Zahed; Aeen Eftekhari; Hassan Hoveidi; Faranak Hejabi
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Sustainable development highly depends on how we manage various parts of the industry, and it plays a significant role in the sewage purge system to pay attention to the clutch reducer elements. Complementary procedures and technologies are needed to resolve water governance concerns, urging a rapid ...
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Sustainable development highly depends on how we manage various parts of the industry, and it plays a significant role in the sewage purge system to pay attention to the clutch reducer elements. Complementary procedures and technologies are needed to resolve water governance concerns, urging a rapid alteration of the economics, engineering, and administration agendas to determine our generation's water challenges. Ekbatan Wastewater Treatment Plant (EWTP) confronts several problems that necessitate comprehensive and strategic planning and management. An analysis of strength-weakness-opportunity-threat (SWOT) and quantitative strategic planning matrix (QSPM) methods were used to investigate strategic factors. For scoring the proposed strategies, a group of experts who are familiar with environmental management was selected. Environmental factors were recognized and investigated. According to experts' opinions, important and unimportant factors were identified and prioritized. The most effective strategy to further strengthen the current situation is "expanding the treatment plant activities such as internal infrastructure and urban utilities to manage more waste."
Mohammad Hossein Karimi Pashaki; Amir Khosrojerdi; Hossein Sedghi
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The water used in the production process of an agricultural or industrial product iscalled "virtual water". In Iran with low average annual precipitation also lack ofavailable water resources, concept of the virtual water and its trade is used as astrategy for optimal operation of water resources in ...
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The water used in the production process of an agricultural or industrial product iscalled "virtual water". In Iran with low average annual precipitation also lack ofavailable water resources, concept of the virtual water and its trade is used as astrategy for optimal operation of water resources in many fields such as waterscarcity, drought and so on. This concept, also, could hold some interesting newopportunities for the field of sustainable consumption. Recently, in Iran, net virtualwater import reached to (15-20)*109 m3 per year and is one out of the top ten virtualimporting countries. In this research, after virtual water applicable conceptsexpressing, virtual water content in some of the agricultural products in the worldhave been compared with products existence in Iran. Additionally, we selectedsome strategic agricultural products, which export and import to the country, andused an algorithm called "Genetic Algorithm", to optimize virtual water usage andtrade according to demands, agricultural situation, production cost andenvironmental condition. Results showed which products how could help optimalwater resources operation and effect of virtual water usage in economic growth.