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<strong>First</strong> <strong>International</strong> <strong>Conference</strong> on MOLDAVIAN RISKS - FROM GLOBAL TO LOCAL SCALE 16-19 May 2012, Bacau, Romania ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR HARNESSING JIU VALLEY'S HARD COAL ENERGETIC POTENTIAL Gheorghe Chiril 1 , Nicolae Ilias 2 , Sorin Mihai Radu 2 , Iosif Gruneantu 2 , Lucian Toma 2 , Oana Rotea 2 , Lucian Codreanu 2 , Maria Stefanie 2 , Sorin Copaescu 3 1 CNH-SA 2 University of Petrosani 3 S.C. CONVERSMIN S.A. Bucureşti Corresponding author: Ilias Nicolae, iliasnic@yahoo.com Abstract: Harnessing the energetic potential of the hard coal stored in Jiu Valley's basin, estimated at about 800 million tones, with an equivalent of over 420 million TEP for the balance reserves, and should represent a priority for any National Energy Strategy. Even though the new European legislation sets drastic limitations for state intervention in this area, there are real possibilities for valorizing this potential, in the context of an existing and coherent strategy assumed by all decisional parties involved and which would be set on increasing the efficiency of classic exploitation and, on the other hand, on implementing unconventional technologies for valorizing this resource. 54
<strong>First</strong> <strong>International</strong> <strong>Conference</strong> on MOLDAVIAN RISKS - FROM GLOBAL TO LOCAL SCALE 16-19 May 2012, Bacau, Romania LINKING WATER ACCOUNTING TOOLS: WATER FOOTPRINT APPLICATION IN LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT Simona-Andreea Ene, Iulia Maria Comandaru, George Barjoveanu, Carmen Teodosiu Department of Environmental Engineering and Management, Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Protection,”Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, Romania Corresponding author: George Barjoveanu, gb@ch.tuiasi.ro Abstract: Water accounting tools are urgently needed as supporting instruments for decision making processes in water resources management at river basin level to address both quantitative and qualitative aspects. This paper approaches two such accounting instruments that have received much attention in the scientific community in the recent years: life cycle assessment and water footprint. Most of the efforts for the development of these two tools as water resources management instruments have mainly been targeted towards conceptualization, but there is still a need to understands how they can be employed in practice various stakeholders. Furthermore, there is a necessity among businesses for an increased operational efficiency, sustainable manufacturing, and the identification of different water-related risks, which could be improved by using these two proposed instruments. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) takes into account the use of different types of natural resources and looks at different types of environmental impacts over the whole life cycle of various products. Unfortunately, water resources are viewed in most LCA studies merely as a transport medium for different other impact producers (pollutants) and do not take into account other aspects of water resources that are of high importance for water practitioners, like water availability. On the other side, the water footprint (WF), together with the other related instruments (i.e. ecological footprint, carbon footprint and embodied energy studies) considers the perspective of one particular resource or impact. From this point of view, it seems reasonable that the "footprints" to be considered as indicators used in LCA and input-output impact studies. Linking these two types of instruments could be of great help in improving both assessment methods, the green, blue and grey WF of a product might be good indicators to assess the water related impacts in LCA studies. Another advantage of integrating the water footprints into LCA studies is that, they can be used to assess the water-related impacts (mostly availability issues) at local level, thus establishing the missing connection between LCA and water resources management practice. Conclusively, WF accounting and sustainability assessment can provide to the LCA studies information as the evaluation of a product WF might support the life cycle inventory for that product and the WF sustainability assessment might support the life cycle impact assessment. This work summarizes main findings of a literature review on methods to assess fresh water use in a life cycle assessment study. It provides LCA practitioners guidance in choosing an approach for conducting such studies given the current state-of-the-art. Finally, it outlines needs for further development in the methods currently available. Key words: impact assessment, life cycle assessment, water accounting tools, water footprint, water resources managemen 55
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