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Wastewater Facilities🚱♻️, UA = Urban Agriculture, WRRFs = Water Resource…

- - - - improve food accessibility
      - reduces price differentials
      - shorten supply chains
      - reduce food spoilage
    - - creates green spaces
        
        social gathering
        
        sense of community
      - reduces stress, anger and blood pressure😠
        
        reduce mental fatigue
        
        🧘🏻‍♀️restore concentration and calm
    - - good investments 💵
        
        farmers earn money with crops
        
        good return rate
      - support economic vitality
        
        clean public spaces
        
        job opportunities
    - - providing vegetation
        
        increase evapotranspiration
        
        ❄️produce cooling
        
        mitigate urban climate
        
        reduce urban heat island effect
      - concomitant water usage
        
        reduce air temperature
        
        increase relative humidity
      - species preservation
        
        🪴provides resting spaces
        
        🦋protects along migration paths
        
        provides food
        
        increases a city's biodiversity
    - - eyesore buildings ➡️pretty gardens
      - biosolids and composting as fertilizers
  - - - hydroponic
      - aeroponic
      - aquaponic systems
    - - farmer's markets👨🏻‍🌾
      - door-to-door 🚪
- - - - new water source
      - new energy source
      - source of nutrients
      - renewable materials
      - Positive LCAs (Life Cycle Assessments)
    - - possibly negative
        
        public health
        
        trace metals
        
        regulation limit of metals
        
        established management practices
        
        CECs (Containments of Emerging Concern)
        
        pharmaceutical products💊
        
        pesticides🪳
        
        personal care products🧴
        
        other pollutants
        
        environment
      - necessary treatment and regulations
        
        human health concerns
        
        lack of understanding of CECs
- - - - construction materials
      - coating
      - packaging 📦
      - food wrapping
      - encapsulation of seeds🌱
      - biodegradable containers for greenhouses
      - many other products
    - - sulfur recovery
      - electricity and heat production
      - captures carbon dioxide
    - - recover high-quality phosphoric minerals
      - counteracts high phosphorus price
- - - - high-quality irrigation water
        
        controllable chemical constituents
        
        lots of treatment options
      - Stable supply
      - Energy saving
        
        no additional water treatment
        
        less transportation and storage 🛻
    - - unrestricted irrigation
        
        US states develop regulations
        
        includes crops for human consumption
        
        includes crops without processing
        
        must minimize risk
        
        specified treatment processes
        
        water quality standards
        
        monitoring regimes
      - restricted irrigation
        
        crops processed before consumption
        
        crops not consumed
      - construction with biosolids 🏗️
  - - - amended biosolids
      - limed biosolids
      - composted biosolids
      - heat-dried biosolids
    - - improve crop yield
      - improve fertility
    - - bricks 🧱
      - cement
    - - produces heat
      - bio-oil/biocrude as alternative