River Network Releases the ‘Water-Energy Toolkit: Understanding the Carbon Footprint of Your Water Use’

Posted: 07/29/2010
Author: Bevan Griffiths-Sattenspiel

River Network’s Water and Energy program has just released the Water-Energy Toolkit: Understanding the Carbon Footprint of Your Water Use. This guidebook features descriptions and links to download 11 different tools or calculators that are designed to help river advocates, water managers and the general public understand the carbon footprint of their water use and the numerous benefits of water efficiency and the “soft path” approach.

Download: Water-Energy Toolkit: Understanding the Carbon Footprint of Your Water Use.

For online descriptions of each tool and links to download them directly visit: Water-Energy Toolkit Webpage

Of the eleven tools featured in this guidebook, five were developed by River Network while the other six were created or are soon to be released by other organizations, including the Alliance for Water Efficiency, Pacific Institute, POLIS Project for Ecological Governance and UC Berkeley.

Read below for descriptions of each tool:

River Network's 'Simple' Water-Energy Calculators

River Network has developed a series of “simple” calculators and tools to help you find out how—and how much—we can reduce our carbon footprint through water efficiency. These tools were produced to explore assorted aspects of the energy and carbon emissions embedded in different types of water supplies. The five interactive, Microsoft Excel-based tools developed by River Network are:

For step-by-step instructions on how to estimate the energy intensity of your water supply and wastewater treatment systems download:

More Water-Energy Tools

Over the past few years, a number of useful tools have been developed by organizations seeking to increase awareness of the energy and greenhouse gas emissions associated with water use and the benefits of using water more efficiently. Here we describe six additional tools that can be used by water utilities, planners or the general public to gain a better understanding of the water-energy connections in their communities. The tools include:

These tools are generally more robust than River Network's 'simple' calculators and thus will likely require more detailed input data from your water utility.

For a complete description of available tools, download: Water-Energy Toolkit: Understanding the Carbon Footprint of Your Water

This project was funded thanks to the generous support of the Alliance for Water Efficiency and the Turner Foundation.

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